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

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "moreutils" package

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


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall moreutils on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: moreutils
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 192
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Nicolas Schier
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.57-1
Replaces: lckdo
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), perl, libipc-run-perl
Suggests: libtime-duration-perl, libtimedate-perl
Conflicts: lckdo
Filename: pool/universe/m/moreutils/moreutils_0.57-1_amd64.deb
Size: 55018
MD5sum: 585a963c57da4a5af3f272165a2c2395
SHA1: 369985bfa8c793e4ff60e7284d5c44099c84758d
SHA256: 108efe631f979e198272263ae82fd9d013239bdbbab14b3ae79b2dc97df4e8fe
Description-en: additional Unix utilities
This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought
to write long ago, when Unix was young.
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So far, it includes the following utilities:
- chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
- combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
- errno: look up errno names and descriptions
- ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
- ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
- isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
- lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
- mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
- parallel: run multiple jobs at once
- pee: tee standard input to pipes
- sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
- ts: timestamp standard input
- vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
- vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
- zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command
Description-md5: fe92b00292d03dc58e79fc3733a6db2b
Homepage: http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu