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

Last updated: May 09,2024

1. Install "urlwatch" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install urlwatch on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

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


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

Package: urlwatch
Priority: extra
Section: universe/web
Installed-Size: 91
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Franck Joncourt
Architecture: all
Version: 1.15-3
Depends: python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2), python-concurrent.futures
Recommends: python-vobject, python-utidylib, lynx
Suggests: html2text
Filename: pool/universe/u/urlwatch/urlwatch_1.15-3_all.deb
Size: 15628
MD5sum: 1a57feef5edf008d3b36c09d9c92c044
SHA1: 30ef02b29629dd1945ce4d7cbc5e34309760dd56
SHA256: cca700189009ad41a347bb6e6bdc3e92e360350a1c1115e3abe7691e93ba2c2b
Description-en: tool for monitoring webpages for updates
This script is intended to help you watch URLs and get notified (via email)
of any changes. The change notification will include the URL that has changed
and a unified diff of what has changed. The script supports the use of a
filtering hook function to strip trivially-varying elements of a webpage.
Description-md5: 8d22938bf95fd6b49e05a9bd5ae08997
Homepage: http://thpinfo.com/2008/urlwatch/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu