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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "discover" package

Please follow the steps below to install discover on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: discover
Priority: optional
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 124
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Install System Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.1.2-7ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdiscover2 (= 2.1.2-7ubuntu1), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Suggests: lsb-base
Conflicts: discover1 (<< 2.0)
Filename: pool/universe/d/discover/discover_2.1.2-7ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 24770
MD5sum: 89ece290efcb3c000a44589c0bc0026e
SHA1: c2b3c75ff0f60efa7285be212af85f28e74cada3
SHA256: ee8729769bec6030c708ebc383f26f6340066ccbf51fd16ad9309279a91ed17f
Description-en: hardware identification system
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2
library. Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can
use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is
installed on a Linux system. In addition to reporting information,
Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.
Description-md5: a5dea31ea54f4b79eeb359717cce264b
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full