How to Install and Uninstall arc Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 20,2024

1. Install "arc" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install arc on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall arc on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: arc
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 104
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Adilson dos Reis
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.21q-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Filename: pool/universe/a/arc/arc_5.21q-4_amd64.deb
Size: 51092
MD5sum: a83a848e17b5c44aebd1caa664a09657
SHA1: c7800d05d5cd310f2ea8a341c167bd713b26f1a9
SHA256: 0a4b29d9026968b62f6e8724f249ab3c37e9b288b9a53ef34fffdb5cfb94b158
Description-en: Archive utility based on the MSDOS ARC program
This program is based on the MSDOS ARC program, version 5.21, plus
a few enhancements...
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ARC also performs Huffman Squeezing on data. The Huffman Squeeze
algorithm was removed from MSDOS ARC after version 5.12. It turns
out to be more efficient than Lempel-Ziv style compression when
compressing graphic images. Squeeze analysis is always done now,
and the best of packing, squeezing, or crunching is used.
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Compresses and extracts Squashed files. "Squashing" was created
by Phil Katz in his PKxxx series of ARC utility programs for
MSDOS. Dan Lanciani wrote the original modifications to ARC's
Crunch code to handle Squashing. I've made minor changes since
then, mostly to reduce the amount of memory required. The 'q'
option flag must be specified to Squash files. The Squashing
algorithm will be used instead of the usual Crunch algorithm,
and will be compared against packing and squeezing, as before.
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This package provides the arc and marc commands. MARC can be
used to merge files compressed by ARC.
Description-md5: 1046295106b32f61b8841b9de2a0964d
Homepage: https://github.com/ani6al/arc
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu