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

Last updated: December 28,2024

1. Install "nis" package

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


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall nis on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: nis
Priority: extra
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 583
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mark Brown
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.17-34ubuntu3
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libgdbm3 (>= 1.8.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libslp1 (>= 1.2.1), netbase, make, portmap, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), hostname (>= 2.98)
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5.00) | debconf-2.0
Suggests: nscd
Conflicts: netstd (<= 1.26)
Filename: pool/universe/n/nis/nis_3.17-34ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 154006
MD5sum: e5c617d5afd340ee65e4ec86917e0b5a
SHA1: bb4c2f5d61be88bd73cc404320f7be62cbd2da98
SHA256: 3f1ee0a2246090bbbefafd06831abdc75f88eab35924adcbc1676769e60b50b0
Description-en: clients and daemons for the Network Information Service (NIS)
This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain.
NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let
several machines in a network share the same account information, such
as the password file.
Description-md5: 7581a56f08a2a61b313a13d3a14ea80a
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu