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

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "tar" package

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


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall tar on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


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

Package: tar
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.34+dfsg-1build1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: required
Essential: yes
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Janos Lenart
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 980
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.33), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~)
Suggests: bzip2, ncompress, xz-utils, tar-scripts, tar-doc
Conflicts: cpio (<= 2.4.2-38)
Breaks: dpkg-dev (<< 1.14.26)
Replaces: cpio (<< 2.4.2-39)
Filename: pool/main/t/tar/tar_1.34+dfsg-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 280768
MD5sum: 4a9185702fdac6c2d29ba4b38ec5b69a
SHA1: 524b4a6339392d5af018b2bb627e9b68d8b7d448
SHA256: eed067c9b982e01e1a1106d13369f96590fb0080d37bc1c4c79b066c37931457
SHA512: 2a07a1c3c521257ef713e24c8f2eafe7f1b9b5aab83558b43f8ac829fa2cba3e20a0d2c2afd6904f92bd643de4ee4c709e06f4ac75b56fe67be3707825c315b4
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Description-en: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Tar is a program for packaging a set of files as a single archive in tar
format. The function it performs is conceptually similar to cpio, and to
things like PKZIP in the DOS world. It is heavily used by the Debian package
management system, and is useful for performing system backups and exchanging
sets of files with others.
Description-md5: 48033bf96442788d1f697785773ad9bb
Task: minimal, server-minimal