How to Install and Uninstall base-files Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 11,2024

1. Install "base-files" package

This tutorial shows how to install base-files on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                base-files
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "base-files" package

Learn how to uninstall base-files on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                base-files
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the base-files package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: base-files
Version: 10.3+deb10u12
Essential: yes
Installed-Size: 340
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: base, dpkg (<= 1.15.0), miscutils
Provides: base
Pre-Depends: awk
Breaks: debian-security-support (<< 2019.04.25), initscripts (<< 2.88dsf-13.3), sendfile (<< 2.1b.20080616-5.2~)
Description: Debian base system miscellaneous files
Description-md5: 6d16337f57b84c4747f56438355b2395
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: admin::configuring, role::app-data, role::program, suite::debian
Section: admin
Priority: required
Filename: pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_10.3+deb10u12_amd64.deb
Size: 69936
MD5sum: 33e197909b4763a3f76329f0e692d7a7
SHA256: 287647524f9e42fcc8777c5a9cfc175c1362da48f7c4a58bdda7853de226cdc6