How to Install and Uninstall aria2 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "aria2" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install aria2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install aria2

2. Uninstall "aria2" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall aria2 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove aria2 $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the aria2 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: aria2
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 4204
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Patrick Ruckstuhl
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.19.0-1build1
Depends: libc-ares2 (>= 1.7.1), libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libgmp10, libgnutls30 (>= 3.4.2), libnettle6, libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libssh2-1 (>= 1.2.8), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Filename: pool/universe/a/aria2/aria2_1.19.0-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 1143226
MD5sum: d4fe35ca9bb4a700ea027085c24c94a7
SHA1: 14de9e832db81699c219232e43fdeb3f76fb2ed9
SHA256: e98555ae28f40375f4172cd30fa6e0ea0b9cb60dcfac407f134f7c03e40a7655
Description-en: High speed download utility
Aria2 is a command line download client with resuming and segmented
downloading. Supported protocols are HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/BitTorrent and it also
supports Metalink.
Description-md5: 6860f620b04a6bab4fabdf349698ddd8
Homepage: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu