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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "socat" package

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


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall socat on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: socat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.7.4.1-3ubuntu1
Priority: extra
Section: net
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1469
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~)
Filename: pool/main/s/socat/socat_1.7.4.1-3ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 341344
MD5sum: a0228ea1d067d77c5ebdb4b724ffb693
SHA1: 351f88cce84d03572a9285b327cb0aff7c9c44a1
SHA256: f987f87b1baae9646518df927571d48cc6493cf3dc9cb6aaeff75d10df969a4e
SHA512: b40332f3b48ab1e67b1d1c9ea57394847c309b788b3aad49ca12295156f9f961209496fca5ffcfe2ee80391bbf40c4d0487512465eb4bbe84ac1869e6c646082
Homepage: http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
Description-en: multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer
Socat (for SOcket CAT) establishes two bidirectional byte streams
and transfers data between them. Data channels may be files, pipes,
devices (terminal or modem, etc.), or sockets (Unix, IPv4, IPv6, raw,
UDP, TCP, SSL). It provides forking, logging and tracing, different
modes for interprocess communication and many more options.
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It can be used, for example, as a TCP relay (one-shot or daemon),
as an external socksifier, as a shell interface to Unix sockets,
as an IPv6 relay, as a netcat and rinetd replacement, to redirect
TCP-oriented programs to a serial line, or to establish a relatively
secure environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell
scripts inside network connections. Socat supports sctp as of 1.7.0.
Description-md5: 756f78d1d190c48fab624c958dfcb5ab
Task: kubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop