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

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "avfs" package

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


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

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


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

Package: avfs
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1328
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Michael Meskes
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.1-2.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), fuse
Suggests: unzip, zip, arj, lha, zoo, rpm, p7zip | p7zip-full, cdparanoia, wget
Filename: pool/universe/a/avfs/avfs_1.0.1-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 246326
MD5sum: 2c5826c736d066aa579736f67912c07d
SHA1: 0c3fc2e9ff7d53e9769a25b8f95d4b93726b69c4
SHA256: 1147547b787faed9698e52bd8750560cfa527b8ea90a1ef9d8c05cd49ba0514c
Description-en: virtual filesystem to access archives, disk images, remote locations
This FUSE-base VFS (Virtual FileSystem) enables all programs to look inside
archived or compressed files, or access remote files without recompiling the
programs or changing the kernel.
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At the moment it supports floppies, tar and gzip files, zip, bzip2, ar and rar
files, ftp sessions, http, webdav, rsh/rcp, ssh/scp. Quite a few other
handlers are implemented with the Midnight Commander's external FS.
Description-md5: bce08fbc36fd7b8e3c454f36f0daf699
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu