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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "linkchecker" package

Please follow the steps below to install linkchecker on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: linkchecker
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.3-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bastian Kleineidam
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1416
Depends: python (>= 2.7.2), python (<< 2.8), libc6 (>= 2.14), python-requests (>= 2.2.1)
Suggests: clamav-daemon, linkchecker-gui, linkchecker-web, python-argcomplete, python-cssutils, python-gconf, python-geoip (>= 1.2.1-2), python-meliae, python-twill
Filename: pool/universe/l/linkchecker/linkchecker_9.3-1+deb8u1build0.16.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 264092
MD5sum: 2b6080c804bd6cc08ae23c7dff79e203
SHA1: c7a7d0d2b1a283995b845dfd06d30feb955a260f
SHA256: ac505d669fbc9e686f705d44bcb63840b6eb708dc71681f80de7c050f585ccba
SHA512: c1b6b8980590ab32850b599e43a112b6ca2fa09486f94445adb0d764002cbae553efd08f94e716fe43741afeb113f44c69f16ddf1759021726db2a1cc3579d85
Homepage: http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
Description-en: check websites and HTML documents for broken links
Provides a command line program and web interface to check links
of websites and HTML documents.
Features:
o recursive checking
o multithreaded
o output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap
graph in different formats
o HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file
links support
o restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
o proxy support
o username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
o robots.txt exclusion protocol support
o Cookie support
o i18n support
o HTML and CSS syntax check
o Antivirus check
Users preferring a graphical interface can install the linkchecker-gui
package.
Description-md5: e61de0c92a8f60524ac0f02afeb04d0b

Package: linkchecker
Priority: optional
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 1441
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Bastian Kleineidam
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.3-1
Depends: python (>= 2.7.2), python (<< 2.8), libc6 (>= 2.14), python-requests (>= 2.2.1)
Suggests: clamav-daemon, linkchecker-gui, linkchecker-web, python-argcomplete, python-cssutils, python-gconf, python-geoip (>= 1.2.1-2), python-meliae, python-twill
Filename: pool/universe/l/linkchecker/linkchecker_9.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 265544
MD5sum: cc5029803bab4b45fa7060a7cfb92188
SHA1: 10d7acdbefc7565c4880ddab93a00015d435a40d
SHA256: 5b9308cc036e1bafb94f41af997c2d69c83e5377b0ba3b8c7bb96798980af6a2
Description-en: check websites and HTML documents for broken links
Provides a command line program and web interface to check links
of websites and HTML documents.
Features:
o recursive checking
o multithreaded
o output in colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV, XML or a sitemap
graph in different formats
o HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file
links support
o restrict link checking with regular expression filters for URLs
o proxy support
o username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
o robots.txt exclusion protocol support
o Cookie support
o i18n support
o HTML and CSS syntax check
o Antivirus check
Users preferring a graphical interface can install the linkchecker-gui
package.
Description-md5: e61de0c92a8f60524ac0f02afeb04d0b
Homepage: http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu