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

Last updated: April 26,2024

1. Install "wipe" package

Learn how to install wipe on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

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


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

Package: wipe
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.24-7
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 89
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Filename: pool/universe/w/wipe/wipe_0.24-7_amd64.deb
Size: 38844
MD5sum: 0e0af58f756899b3502f41533d3aa928
SHA1: 567bdc3c98faa56c52c53d797ebeb3676262910e
SHA256: 973b4a2378622f8dfb7317ff335f9eb150435a717e7c7a2cdcf2d0664b6f739b
SHA512: 25655ff9827ce0374a7539831da9808601a9212f0539fff92d54c2dd8e8c4bfa2a2abe9d5c008835ba2e2559e4dfc82537d6dd5093e14a40c21f039e37041941
Homepage: https://github.com/berke/wipe
Description-en: secure file deletion
Recovery of supposedly erased data from magnetic media is easier than
what many people would like to believe. A technique called Magnetic
Force Microscopy (MFM) allows any moderately funded opponent to recover
the last two or three layers of data written to disk. Wipe repeatedly
writes special patterns to the files to be destroyed, using the fsync()
call and/or the O_SYNC bit to force disk access.
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Wipe can permanently delete data in hard disks and flash drives (caution!
several writes can damage solid medias).
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This program is useful in anti-forensics and security activities.
Description-md5: 1a506a423a5341cc02f3faef2f77580f