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

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "pax" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install pax on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: pax
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 166
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:20151013-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Filename: pool/main/p/pax/pax_20151013-1_amd64.deb
Size: 78804
MD5sum: 6a406ef943b708728f5945329ccfb7d3
SHA1: 0c028b0555e436365858e11215ab9c490e50fb4e
SHA256: 73decf418ffc0f02545f0ec62c3030feab9d9a02845c5406000594814b1dea59
Description-en: Portable Archive Interchange (cpio, pax, tar)
paxtar is an implementation of an archiving utility that reads
and writes several formats - traditional ones, the extended
formats specified in IEEE 1003.1, and the ar(5) format used
by deb(5) packages (MirBSD specific paxtar extension). The
pax interface was designed by IEEE 1003.2 as a compromise in
the chronic controversy over which of tar or cpio is best, but
this implementation offers paxcpio and paxtar for easy calling.
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This is the MirBSD paxtar implementation supporting the formats
ar, bcpio, cpio, SVR4 cpio with and without CRC, old tar, and
ustar, but not the format known as pax yet. It has extensions
for removing non-numerical user and group IDs from the archive,
storing hardlinked files only once, setting ownership to the
superuser, anonymising inode and device information, changing
the mtime to zero, and producing GNU tar compatible trailing
slashes on ustar directory nodes. Its "ar" format is suitable
for operating on *.deb files, unlike that of GNU binutils.
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Note that ACLs and Extended Attributes are not supported.
Also, on Debian GNU/Hurd and Debian GNU/Linux (but not
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), size of archive members is limited
to the width of the "long" type, that is, 2 GiB on platforms
that do not have a 64-bit "long" type, due to a bug in the
GNU C library (Debian #317466).
Description-md5: 7f236f6351e1536c2153e84c93563932
Multi-Arch: foreign
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y