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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "crunch" package

This is a short guide on how to install crunch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: crunch
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Installed-Size: 110
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Marcio de Souza Oliveira
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.6-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: xz-utils | lzma, bzip2, p7zip-full
Filename: pool/universe/c/crunch/crunch_3.6-2_amd64.deb
Size: 29672
MD5sum: f4ce71d2793580bdc9090c73373cae99
SHA1: f8d7ac2ed0f9d01c29d193eb283033c51acc3cff
SHA256: 5f7164137f03b008f37ef1f3faf67fc6c4d10471a110c67efad990f09f823d79
Description-en: tool for creating wordlist
Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard
character set or any set of characters to be used in generating
the wordlists. The wordlists are created through combination and
permutation of a set of characters. You can determine the amount
of characters and list size.
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This program supports numbers and symbols, upper and lower case
characters separately and Unicode.
Description-md5: 764338ffe25304dca81453db54262c62
Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crunch-wordlist/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu