Complete Guide: Installing agrep on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "agrep" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install agrep on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall agrep on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                agrep
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the agrep package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: agrep
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/text
Installed-Size: 312
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jari Aalto
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.17-9
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/multiverse/a/agrep/agrep_4.17-9_amd64.deb
Size: 190698
MD5sum: 29f1d9e66ab0490bcf88ab3d138c395d
SHA1: 533687277f85be06aba9af8eabd9c45179ab9457
SHA256: e7420cef36877ef1b6f9ddf8a60f84db2d787003eca9d43ffc6a6c45971cfc41
Description-en: text search tool with support for approximate patterns
agrep is a version of standard grep with the following enhancements:
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* the ability to search for approximate patterns
* it is record oriented rather than just line oriented
* multiple patterns with AND OR logic queries
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This package contains glimpse's (4.x) last free version of grep.
Description-md5: 9be24e944ed9e33e495381c8828a2a36
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/agrep
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu