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

Last updated: May 15,2024

1. Install "libhd-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to install libhd-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libhd-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libhd-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall libhd-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: libhd-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 116
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Architecture: amd64
Source: hwinfo
Version: 21.23-1
Provides: libhd12-dev, libhd13-dev, libhd14-dev, libhd15-dev, libhd16-dev, libhd20-dev, libhd21-dev
Depends: libhd21 (= 21.23-1)
Suggests: libhd-doc
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/libhd-dev_21.23-1_amd64.deb
Size: 21638
MD5sum: afc7afb0077cef7ea13b589fb60d8705
SHA1: fb6bcb18360aef6f523adbac041b54885ab74710
SHA256: e344a3d5e42c975aa8a20c249792d09bdee81236b7180f64c03503f2703e811a
Description-en: Hardware identification system library and headers
hwinfo is the hardware detection tool used in SuSE Linux.
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In Debian Edu (Skolelinux) hwinfo has shown better results than discover when
detecting mouse, keyboard and monitor.
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hwinfo collects information about the hardware installed on a system. Among
others, libhd contains information about cdrom, zip, floppy, disks and
partitions, network card, graphics card, monitor, camera, mouse, sound, pppoe,
isdn, modem, printer, scanner, bios, cpu, usb, memory and smp.
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This package contains the static library and header files from the hwinfo
package.
Description-md5: 59c83d99599ac15262c22aee15952c73
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu