How to Install and Uninstall tar Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "tar" package

This tutorial shows how to install tar on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


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

Learn how to uninstall tar on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: tar
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu1.1
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: 948
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.38), 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-1.2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 292598
MD5sum: 8f1255d742ba723ce1668c1657a6b535
SHA1: d829463e76726117aaa0e9b3771a3259429fdedb
SHA256: d1220269b1451e235db1bb40c79a2d608fdbd0f901455cb51157d1cdff2c0d83
SHA512: 0c8575551b88390a1a5aad43fe4b5f278ab0a5bdd64e17f51c874aa3877586053111cb182082149b9e62bfc1f2a08e3022d80ba3f746247d6d4ba926a0fc2694
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Description: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Description-md5: 48033bf96442788d1f697785773ad9bb
Task: minimal, server-minimal, cloud-minimal

Package: tar
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.34+dfsg-1.2ubuntu1
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: 948
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.34), 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-1.2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 292932
MD5sum: a4a7886406a2fd9ce2641ecfe24fc5b5
SHA1: ccadbbc4dd44ad802c1fedc87d9ce2ad2a27ea74
SHA256: 5df7bdcafd7ae77c79b85816a96b83fcd2329e821e08edbb9fdf66ff9c25c930
SHA512: 78d300041860ffeecc0651d680a003ed58a5731acb74a799915e64c5d4e0fb059cfb4afe2c3a670958b19143ff92274ca79b0d54210a1481245ad7e19b458d47
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Description: GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Description-md5: 48033bf96442788d1f697785773ad9bb
Task: minimal, server-minimal, cloud-minimal