How to Install and Uninstall distro-info-data Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "distro-info-data" package

This tutorial shows how to install distro-info-data on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                distro-info-data
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "distro-info-data" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall distro-info-data on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: distro-info-data
Architecture: all
Version: 0.28ubuntu0.17
Priority: important
Section: devel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 17
Breaks: distro-info (<< 0.14ubuntu0.1~), juju-2.0 (<< 2.2.6)
Replaces: distro-info (<< 0.3~)
Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info-data/distro-info-data_0.28ubuntu0.17_all.deb
Size: 4600
MD5sum: df7d92f99c2a880def94c35618667d64
SHA1: 42d89ea70c592ac090e8b2bad24eae1a5e704db5
SHA256: a59d68fe852ad5606e60dffa1635fd09d2918575a883a007b93b5fad39db2504
SHA512: 28c366a326185bcffc3392e0e0dcd2b0d7e5f8033aa6e28c15196417e5cf60973a4e1c588ebb2c3bbcaab4784014005a50aa75a9e859ab0ef5ff06cb23c6eef5
Description-en: information about the distributions' releases (data files)
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script
will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your
distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the
debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
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This package contains the data files.
Description-md5: f7fe06a2e0396bbe8c1c7abad056bf48
Task: minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-sdk
Supported: 5y

Package: distro-info-data
Priority: important
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 14
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung
Architecture: all
Version: 0.28
Replaces: distro-info (<< 0.3~)
Breaks: distro-info (<< 0.3~)
Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info-data/distro-info-data_0.28_all.deb
Size: 3856
MD5sum: 92e695580e198cad65ee701e115551c4
SHA1: 4cef2db5612f7b69f81a6a8dd30ed6b7911937bb
SHA256: 779f641060d8e1736adda23bab744a0d4966e7ddc9f985bb5ba28095535928ed
Description-en: information about the distributions' releases (data files)
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script
will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your
distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the
debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
.
This package contains the data files.
Description-md5: f7fe06a2e0396bbe8c1c7abad056bf48
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: minimal, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-core, ubuntu-sdk