How to Install and Uninstall mt-st Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "mt-st" package

Learn how to install mt-st on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mt-st
            
                    
    
    Copied

2. Uninstall "mt-st" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mt-st on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mt-st
            
                    
    
    Copied


    
        
            $
        

        
            
                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
    Copied

3. Information about the mt-st package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mt-st
Priority: extra
Section: universe/admin
Installed-Size: 153
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.1-6ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7)
Filename: pool/universe/m/mt-st/mt-st_1.1-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 30154
MD5sum: 9b7d27ee1155185a8593bea34eee0246
SHA1: fa4dbbf927c134153034b90da9bbf5b64a8c57e7
SHA256: a5fad0fdf5a092ec7df13d55d911289afa25b607e96b8e6444c436c286ba7c37
Description-en: Linux SCSI tape driver aware magnetic tape control (aka mt)
Mt-st contains a version of "mt" that is aware of Linux's SCSI tape
driver. Mt-st is able to set some esoteric control flags like tape partitions.
.
Mt-st provides an alternative to the GNU version of mt, in the cpio package.
.
It also comes with stinit, a program to be run at boot time to set up
tape defaults.
Description-md5: 3fabef24fd784c60d7021beae15e2308
Homepage: ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/backup/mt-st-1.1.tar.gz
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu