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

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "urfkill" package

Please follow the instructions below to install urfkill on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Learn how to uninstall urfkill on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: urfkill
Priority: optional
Section: universe/net
Installed-Size: 191
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Keng-Yu Lin
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.0~20150318.103828.5539c0d.1-0ubuntu4
Depends: dbus, libdbus-1-3, libdbus-glib-1-2, libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgudev-1.0-0, libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), python3, systemd-services, init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), lsb-base (>= 4.1+Debian11ubuntu7), libandroid-properties1, libc6 (>= 2.4), libhybris, libudev1 (>= 183)
Filename: pool/universe/u/urfkill/urfkill_0.6.0~20150318.103828.5539c0d.1-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 50612
MD5sum: 3203d3907c18cae5452349abce9e6ecb
SHA1: 6eac99f8ef7cac0a35eb437f497e7615f271c9a1
SHA256: be8b7f91cb2a3ee69c938bc1ef12be9dae081fd53d97ca3b790f02a47b01e928
Description-en: wireless killswitch management daemon for laptops
The urfkill daemon allow managing the rfkill-related hotkeys
and the killswitches in a more configurable way for the common RF
devices (WiFi, Bluetooth, WWan...). It handles the various
key codes (KEY_WLAN, KEY_BLUETOOTH, KEY_RFKILL...)
and toggles the killswitches based on a pre-defined policy.
Description-md5: 7b4ecf2ac40d01ca10de89518bc2244b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/urfkill
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-touch-core, ubuntu-touch