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

Last updated: September 20,2024

1. Install "perforate" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install perforate on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: perforate
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 88
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers
Original-Maintainer: Amaya Rodrigo Sastre
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
Filename: pool/universe/p/perforate/perforate_1.2-5_amd64.deb
Size: 16608
MD5sum: 3e90b9bec246226a8432a4631d5a018b
SHA1: 100483034bd7e8a96bc378ec1772b819d6ef79b1
SHA256: 93908f5e121572771819763b423046e08ad85bfa5a0ff66d73883f246adda8f3
Description-en: Utilities to save disk space
GNU cp used to detect files that contain 0-filled holes and save disk space
by skipping them with lseek when writing a file and thus not allocating
disk blocks. Unfortunately it does no longer. So here is program to make
holes in existing files.
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Also there are some scripts that help cleaning up the hard disk
(finding duplicated and/or unstripped files).
Description-md5: f12c66d8427be49df567b504dc826195
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu