How to Install and Uninstall electric-fence Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: April 30,2024

You can also install and uninstall the electric-fence on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "electric-fence" package

This is a short guide on how to install electric-fence on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                electric-fence
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "electric-fence" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall electric-fence on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                electric-fence
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the electric-fence package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: electric-fence
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.2.6
Priority: extra
Section: universe/devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 77
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Filename: pool/universe/e/electric-fence/electric-fence_2.2.6_amd64.deb
Size: 20214
MD5sum: 8f3303ae850e4c57d1843a57bfc3c4ce
SHA1: f2d55802121075119dea5fc7d4d782fe50943d8c
SHA256: bb05a72c7df9d620fd6721e487cf52d801c7542a4a87adb21cff68d5fb1301b0
SHA512: 21511c8ec53b4cf88b02ad77e5ec8d93872a3594c5a62fdfc292f6f7d517d51d25aef629d3255b6213bf1370253469517a957b3000ec5ff2e64ad71bb025b90d
Description: A malloc(3) debugger
Description-md5: 81225779998561422a8be51affd47171