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Package: hostname (2.93build1) [essential]

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainer (usually from Debian):

  • Daniel Baumann

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

Similar packages:

utility to set/show the host name or domain name

The hostname command can be used to either set or display the current host or domain name of the system. This name is used by many of the networking programs to identify the machine. The domain name is also used by NIS/YP.

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1)
    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 10.8 kB80 kB [list of files]
i386 10.3 kB80 kB [list of files]
powerpc 11.2 kB80 kB [list of files]