How to Install and Uninstall apt-transport-s3 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: July 03,2024

1. Install "apt-transport-s3" package

Learn how to install apt-transport-s3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                apt-transport-s3
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "apt-transport-s3" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall apt-transport-s3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                apt-transport-s3
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the apt-transport-s3 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: apt-transport-s3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 28
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Marcin Kulisz (kuLa)
Architecture: all
Version: 1.2.1-1
Depends: python, apt, python-configobj
Filename: pool/universe/a/apt-transport-s3/apt-transport-s3_1.2.1-1_all.deb
Size: 6482
MD5sum: ea29d59aa3b009adf18e280b41490fbe
SHA1: e6e9b8a734e77c7ec8858b22086d3a282a9e2d92
SHA256: bcdd4d003ddc01ecd097378bedd3a204dc295c3ef0845bffdd7dcad099e44b50
Description-en: APT transport for privately held AWS S3 repositories
This package contains the APT AWS S3 transport. It makes possible to fetch
files from repositories privately held on AWS S3.
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To start using S3 based repo it's enough to have IAM role on the server and to
add line similar to the below to apt sources.list (more information in 'man
apt-transport-s3'): deb s3://s3.amazonaws.com/BUCKETNAME wheezy main
Description-md5: 9c4a2707c72c73ed9aa66c0f8f95d195
Homepage: https://github.com/BashtonLtd/apt-transport-s3
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu