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

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "pmount" package

Please follow the steps below to install pmount on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall pmount on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: pmount
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 727
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Vincent Fourmond
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.23-3
Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.16), libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: cryptsetup (>= 1.0)
Filename: pool/universe/p/pmount/pmount_0.9.23-3_amd64.deb
Size: 73846
MD5sum: a82feca66ae5b10f7cb4ac507dd108ad
SHA1: aa27d120a07e02c894588fff6e65872d844aa73b
SHA256: 4f89fe9afa824dc35663ef22ef019f5aa6e3717594ea88c95a0d87a988cb27e3
Description-en: mount removable devices as normal user
pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal
users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This
provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia
project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum.
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If a LUKS capable cryptsetup package is installed, pmount is able to
transparently mount encrypted volumes.
Description-md5: fb7e7dec158c24424e211a9ae41f5053
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu