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

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "dar" package

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


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

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


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

Package: dar
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1351
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.5.3-1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libdar64-5000, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Suggests: par2, dar-docs
Filename: pool/universe/d/dar/dar_2.5.3-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 338520
MD5sum: afd6046b1afff8df884f285776094c1f
SHA1: cb91096618282da057e474c1d3fe715abf3a719c
SHA256: 2517b1ae9ebfe08ff995965b9db0853fa8f77422bdafcde4769dbfac3f6064c8
Description-en: Disk ARchive: Backup directory tree and files
Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices,
compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also supports Pipes for remote
operations, including with ssh.
Description-md5: 74b68e90f5a8f668ae2c9a24ac851fee
Homepage: http://dar.linux.free.fr/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu