How to Install and Uninstall python-chardet Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "python-chardet" package

Please follow the guidance below to install python-chardet on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                python-chardet
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "python-chardet" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall python-chardet on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: python-chardet
Priority: optional
Section: python
Installed-Size: 496
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Piotr Ożarowski
Architecture: all
Source: chardet
Version: 2.3.0-2
Depends: python:any (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), python-pkg-resources
Filename: pool/main/c/chardet/python-chardet_2.3.0-2_all.deb
Size: 96322
MD5sum: e4f1558b376066ea2a2fc32da122bc05
SHA1: e2d822b1eb921e47db9c1f28dc3866f67dfc383f
SHA256: e3cd3f4c56d86333c8b6e626084d0f520543716ed1c55de34d9ba758dc79bd45
Description-en: universal character encoding detector for Python2
Chardet takes a sequence of bytes in an unknown character encoding, and
attempts to determine the encoding.
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Supported encodings:
* ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants)
* Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified
Chinese)
* EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
* EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR (Korean)
* KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
* ISO-8859-2, windows-1250 (Hungarian)
* ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
* windows-1252 (English)
* ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
* ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
* TIS-620 (Thai)
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This library is a port of the auto-detection code in Mozilla.
Description-md5: c1c8f80a4fea9964c6c02fd3277554ae
Homepage: https://github.com/chardet/chardet
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 5y
Task: ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop-gnome, edubuntu-usb, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-frontend, mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-slave, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-master, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntu-gnome-desktop, ubuntu-sdk, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop