How to Install and Uninstall libhd21 Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "libhd21" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libhd21 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libhd21
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libhd21" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libhd21 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libhd21
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libhd21 package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libhd21
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 2815
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastien Badia
Architecture: amd64
Source: hwinfo
Version: 21.23-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libx86emu1 (>= 1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/h/hwinfo/libhd21_21.23-1_amd64.deb
Size: 663170
MD5sum: 2227f5f82fe06b6d519e44f287e9253b
SHA1: dae51687c29a10a22f13f67307e45a2c6092a8d7
SHA256: 1ee1be5da1d162885e3874bdfcca16858c5aed41ffadd7ba2603d8e1d7e25894
Description-en: Hardware identification system library
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 shared library from the hwinfo package.
Description-md5: e05daec8e9a04bdca77c25fbe97e5e96
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/openSUSE/hwinfo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu