How to Install and Uninstall cifs-utils Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 16,2024

1. Install "cifs-utils" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install cifs-utils on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install cifs-utils

2. Uninstall "cifs-utils" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall cifs-utils on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove cifs-utils $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the cifs-utils package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:6.8-2+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 248
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: smbfs (<< 2:4.0~rc1-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libkeyutils1 (>= 1.4), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.13~alpha1+dfsg), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libwbclient0 (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1)
Suggests: keyutils, smbclient, winbind
Description: Common Internet File System utilities
Description-md5: 935040b98485786df2e3f301255ff219
Homepage: http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/updates/main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_6.8-2+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 73400
MD5sum: a74f7bb66724c90a27adca1927f7ad0f
SHA256: 3848669b124549c7b3f3a853aa55afd1bd992a6fc4064fbb041a77cadee9eebd

Package: cifs-utils
Version: 2:6.8-2
Installed-Size: 231
Maintainer: Debian Samba Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: smbfs (<< 2:4.0~rc1-1)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libcap-ng0 (>= 0.7.9), libkeyutils1 (>= 1.4), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.13~alpha1+dfsg), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213), libwbclient0 (>= 2:4.0.3+dfsg1)
Suggests: keyutils, smbclient, winbind
Description: Common Internet File System utilities
Description-md5: 935040b98485786df2e3f301255ff219
Homepage: http://www.samba.org/~jlayton/cifs-utils/
Tag: admin::filesystem, admin::kernel, devel::lang:c, devel::library,
implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, protocol::smb,
role::devel-lib, role::program, scope::utility, suite::samba
Section: otherosfs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cifs-utils/cifs-utils_6.8-2_amd64.deb
Size: 72876
MD5sum: 846898e3f53d8289a7e6161301dae598
SHA256: 3b544339513fa5393bfe17912bcc0c5f335507e4c5cf1faab2eb15dc04e05b8f