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Quick installation of cifs-utils:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: cifs-utils
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Package Details | |
| Package: | cifs-utils |
| Version: | 2:6.5-2ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/ |
| Description: | Common Internet File System utilities The SMB/CIFS protocol provides support for cross-platform file sharing with Microsoft Windows, OS X, and other Unix systems. . This package provides utilities for managing mounts of CIFS network file systems. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 16.10 |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | otherosfs |
How to install cifs-utils on Ubuntu 16.10?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 16.10 on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If cifs-utils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L cifs-utils' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L cifs-utils dpkg-query: package 'cifs-utils' is not installed Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing cifs-utils:
After system update use the following command to install cifs-utils:
sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 16.10 Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove cifs-utils from Ubuntu 16.10?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the cifs-utils from Ubuntu 16.10. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the cifs-utils following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove cifs-utils
Following command is used to remove the cifs-utils package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove cifs-utils
This will remove cifs-utils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing cifs-utils with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge cifs-utils
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cifs-utils
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with cifs-utils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
