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

Last updated: December 29,2024

1. Install "dact" package

Learn how to install dact on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: dact
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 334
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jari Aalto
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.42-4
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libmcrypt4, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/d/dact/dact_0.8.42-4_amd64.deb
Size: 104572
MD5sum: 0f64781ec283541823f7f7823111bb72
SHA1: 30a93c6597a23cec29324dbc59448fa23504883e
SHA256: 4810abf35b659e8add6812bb50eb653e19ff15a13ba990c288afea0353028ed1
Description-en: multi-algorithm compression
DACT compresses each block within the file with all its known algorithms and
uses the block with the best compression ratio.
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DACT can encrypt the compressed data with one of two algorithms.
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Compression time for DACT is slow as each block is compressed multiple times.
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Current supported compression algorithms include RLE, Delta, Text, Zlib,
Modified Zlib, Bzip2 and Seminibble Encoding.
Description-md5: ad132ae8c0ac9facc5ba8f6fbc8322f8
Homepage: http://www.rkeene.org/oss/dact
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu