How to Install and Uninstall libarchive-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libarchive-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libarchive-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libarchive-tools" package

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


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

Package: libarchive-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.2.1-2~ubuntu16.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Source: libarchive
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Libarchive Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 176
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.2.1-2~ubuntu16.04.1), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Breaks: bsdcpio (<< 3.2.1-2~), bsdtar (<< 3.2.1-2~)
Replaces: bsdcpio (<< 3.2.1-2~), bsdtar (<< 3.2.1-2~)
Filename: pool/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-tools_3.2.1-2~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 68188
MD5sum: 4b09a7c24651fe1f3a9d263c0969e507
SHA1: a537426eb382ce2036749add1746ad4b7b9ad118
SHA256: 216c0de76ae4b182e66c4613e954fe39aafbf4380fcc3ce79824781f5618c593
SHA512: f3e334b1f2228838e09717275e6a732da6ac1fa523fa493cac8ff01285b4a0289b5201f87ce3d57bc90bfded3a9f3a2e917f29b9129d6bc5047c3f429c5e61ee
Homepage: http://www.libarchive.org/
Description-en: FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools
This package contains several command-line tools based on the libarchive
library.
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The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on FreeBSD. bsdtar
uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading
and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on FreeBSD.
bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for
reading and writing archives in various formats.
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The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its standard input
and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to its standard output.
It may be used for viewing the contents of archives or for passing it to other
tools for further processing.
Description-md5: 04bbebb441868f4c976e664833572c46