How to Install and Uninstall hardening-includes Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "hardening-includes" package

Please follow the guidance below to install hardening-includes on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hardening-includes
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hardening-includes" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall hardening-includes on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: hardening-includes
Priority: extra
Section: devel
Installed-Size: 43
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Package Hardening
Architecture: all
Source: hardening-wrapper
Version: 2.7ubuntu2
Depends: perl, make, binutils
Filename: pool/main/h/hardening-wrapper/hardening-includes_2.7ubuntu2_all.deb
Size: 13604
MD5sum: 9d01b21507fe35a08838d78bd79943cc
SHA1: 28861fb0445049edcfe978a66d21dada2d15f6e2
SHA256: 6917e819a7e13dcf928f2a86630c6e0eda0e38501dec18a0c7707576b11b37dc
Description-en: Makefile for enabling compiler flags for security hardening
Makefile to be included in Debian rules files. CFLAGS and LDFLAGS
can be extended to include the respective HARDENING_* variables which
contain architecture-validated security hardening compiler options.
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Also includes the "hardening-check" script to help evaluate the hardening
status of already compiled binaries.
Description-md5: 751856277fa8b95a4cbaccf7d392446f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntu-sdk, ubuntukylin-desktop