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

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "miscfiles" package

Learn how to install miscfiles on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install miscfiles

2. Uninstall "miscfiles" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall miscfiles on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove miscfiles $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the miscfiles package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: miscfiles
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 3133
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Robert Luberda
Architecture: all
Version: 1.5+dfsg-2
Provides: wordlist
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, perl, dictionaries-common (>= 1.0)
Filename: pool/main/m/miscfiles/miscfiles_1.5+dfsg-2_all.deb
Size: 1292994
MD5sum: c52ac71d7e0c4251e80bd5e5c3ba5069
SHA1: c30d796d2c68cc0a49e89faf202baa2ba9a42f9b
SHA256: ad45fbc99bf1264fec45e98c400acde3947b2d13385fdd0586449a839855f543
Description-en: Dictionaries and other interesting files
These files are not crucial to system administration or operation,
but which have come to be common on various systems over the years.
They originated from various sources and are freely redistributable
(see the copyright file for more information).
.
These files include those of general interest (English `connectives',
Webster's Second International English wordlist, traditional stone
and flower for each month, Precedence table for operators in the C
language, description of the ISO Latin-1 character set, two-letter
codes for languages, from ISO 639, International country telephone
codes, geographic coordinates of many major cities, Some common
abbreviations used in electronic communication, GNU mailing lists,
country and currency abbreviations, rfc-index, etc.).
.
There also is information specific to the United States (List of
three letter codes for some major airports, North American (+1)
telephone area codes, postal codes for US states and Canadian
provinces, the Constitution of the United States of America, the
Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies).
Description-md5: c14499491490d96255ece227b5e4fb33
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/miscfiles/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: mythbuntu-desktop, lubuntu-core