How to Install and Uninstall gocryptfs Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "gocryptfs" package

Please follow the instructions below to install gocryptfs on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gocryptfs on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: gocryptfs
Source: gocryptfs (1.6.1-1)
Version: 1.6.1-1+b20
Installed-Size: 6989
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libfuse2, libc6 (>= 2.3.2), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0)
Description: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go
Description-md5: 885f33609ec7ba845f3f61d4715db79f
Homepage: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
Built-Using: golang-1.11 (= 1.11.5-1), golang-github-hanwen-go-fuse (= 0.0~git20190214.58dcd77-1), golang-github-jacobsa-crypto (= 0.0~git20171018.0.c73681c+dfsg1-3), golang-github-pkg-xattr (= 0.4.0-1), golang-github-rfjakob-eme (= 1.1-4), golang-go.crypto (= 1:0.0~git20181203.505ab14-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.0~git20171101.fd80eb9-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.0~git20181228.9a3f9b0-1)
Tag: implemented-in::TODO, role::program, security::cryptography,
works-with::file
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gocryptfs/gocryptfs_1.6.1-1+b20_amd64.deb
Size: 1610120
MD5sum: d25b7c2450eda283d4377918a90983d9
SHA256: c9e88755978a24a57487e437edca9c455c71ffbcca5ca972857742fde103bb23