How to Install and Uninstall perforate Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "perforate" package

Please follow the steps below to install perforate on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                perforate
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "perforate" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall perforate on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                perforate
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the perforate package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: perforate
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2-5.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 42
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4)
Filename: pool/universe/p/perforate/perforate_1.2-5.1_amd64.deb
Size: 13290
MD5sum: 0c78fd48ffa86bd899a0f0c5b5854163
SHA1: 6fbe62abfc250152efc86a81632827d49f0b03db
SHA256: baba8be1ac81d8775578762592b23609b3d6c3d0053082973f6a649646e2ac6b
SHA512: 61e091d922d2d98cb9e9f8c4e00849c153f44108cba0c2f2a9577348f7ff73177d908a1ce97d181f4a37ce5ebafadf3aef9e827205f6caf32077c9189bd2be2a
Homepage: http://perforate-linux.sf.net
Description-en: Utilities to save disk space
GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space
by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating
disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make
holes in existing files.
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Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk
(finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).
Description-md5: f12c66d8427be49df567b504dc826195