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

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "rlwrap" package

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


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall rlwrap on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: rlwrap
Priority: optional
Section: universe/editors
Installed-Size: 207
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mike Miller
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.41-1build1
Provides: readline-editor
Depends: perl, libc6 (>= 2.15), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libtinfo5 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/universe/r/rlwrap/rlwrap_0.41-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 74914
MD5sum: 40ccd183603d7ce0f9a0381c69aa168c
SHA1: e10237cdab2e08d679700b4e79e918152795338e
SHA256: 852a6f3f3bb56eb5fe90c5e4ca653963b6fe243b1599b543d06b1078a9db3c0a
Description-en: readline feature command line wrapper
This package provides a small utility that uses the GNU readline library
to allow the editing of keyboard input for any other command. Input
history is remembered across invocations, separately for each command;
history completion and search work as in bash and completion word lists
can be specified on the command line.
Description-md5: 2dd4e4df63ed824e61c4e21ad05cd1eb
Homepage: http://utopia.knoware.nl/~hlub/uck/rlwrap/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: edubuntu-desktop-gnome