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

Last updated: May 12,2024

1. Install "sdate" package

This is a short guide on how to install sdate on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall sdate on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: sdate
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 91
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christoph Berg
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4)
Filename: pool/universe/s/sdate/sdate_0.4_amd64.deb
Size: 10430
MD5sum: 3207bb7ea52a2401f9cfd5e0d1631d2a
SHA1: cf299aa8421d85e9e100e8830a78426dcc8f6ae6
SHA256: abb60333c0b7e12c17942011a26d613690e85b3a27bf5f5fd8e8fb51e05e7ab9
Description-en: never ending September date
sdate wraps the libc localtime() and gmtime() functions to output the eternal
september 1993 date.
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sdate works like fakeroot (on which its code is based) by setting LD_PRELOAD
to a wrapper library.
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* http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/September-that-never-ended.html
Description-md5: ffdf4f0384fd4a15eb161b474b28d6ae
Homepage: http://www.df7cb.de/projects/sdate/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu