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

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "bsdmainutils" package

Please follow the guidance below to install bsdmainutils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall bsdmainutils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: bsdmainutils
Priority: standard
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 565
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Bsdmainutils Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.0.6ubuntu3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libtinfo5 (>= 6), bsdutils (>= 3.0-0), debianutils (>= 1.8)
Suggests: cpp, wamerican | wordlist, whois, vacation
Breaks: bsdutils (<< 1:2.13-11)
Filename: pool/main/b/bsdmainutils/bsdmainutils_9.0.6ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 174448
MD5sum: b84181e64807bcd67d050a842e1befdb
SHA1: 46f26faa805bc5bbdbc50f5fcb23e46b0591fed3
SHA256: eef7c94de94a9f1b35b8a4c7847ad38530efce453d0819e5235d1a8f8e005b49
Description-en: collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find when
they use a BSD-style Unix system.
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It provides banner (as printerbanner), calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column,
from (as bsd-from), hexdump (or hd), look, lorder, ncal (or cal), ul, and
write (as bsd-write).
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This package used to contain whois and vacation, which are now distributed in
their own packages. Also here was tsort, which is now in the "coreutils"
package.
Description-md5: 156725110b9d8b7a144a6b1a40ed5446
Multi-Arch: foreign
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: standard, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntu-sdk