How to Install and Uninstall libdumbnet-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "libdumbnet-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libdumbnet-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libdumbnet-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libdumbnet-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libdumbnet-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: libdumbnet-dev
Priority: optional
Section: libdevel
Installed-Size: 224
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Source: libdumbnet
Version: 1.12-7
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libdumbnet1 (= 1.12-7)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.17.14)
Filename: pool/main/libd/libdumbnet/libdumbnet-dev_1.12-7_amd64.deb
Size: 55930
MD5sum: 01d31610df200e0fc9c93bb60f3c8da5
SHA1: 2461138972826cd0ac4ff4322543c8d71123cee4
SHA256: 4286f64865d9bd8c5b56c6fd1363567a16d2291a68afc10b0f7801e9df7b4c24
Description-en: dumb, portable networking library -- development files
libdumbnet provides a simplified, portable interface to several low-level
networking routines, including
* network address manipulation
* kernel arp(4) cache and route(4) table lookup and manipulation
* network firewalling (Ip filter, ipfw, ipchains, pdf, ...)
* network interface lookup and manipulation
* raw IP packet and Ethernet frame transmission
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libdumbnet is known as libdnet in other distributions, but was renamed
in Debian in favour of the older DECnet library 'libdnet'.
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This package contains the static library and the C header files.
Description-md5: 7a81cdaa91bc3707612b382a29a678d9
Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/libdnet/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m