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

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "pax" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install pax on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall pax on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: pax
Version: 1:20190224-1
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.26)
Enhances: arj, binutils, cpio, dpkg, gzip, lha, libarchive-tools, p7zip, rar, star, tar, unrar, unzip, zip
Description: Portable Archive Interchange (cpio, pax, tar)
Description-md5: 6a13dcd72d0208af12f4a865635b9dac
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.mirbsd.org/pax.htm
Tag: admin::backup, admin::file-distribution, admin::filesystem,
devel::lang:c, devel::library, devel::packaging, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, made-of::man, role::devel-lib,
role::documentation, role::program, scope::utility, suite::bsd,
use::compressing, use::converting, use::storing,
works-with-format::TODO, works-with-format::tar, works-with::archive,
works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pax/pax_20190224-1_amd64.deb
Size: 81956
MD5sum: f03c34dec84d39408c8a53b03e62f71c
SHA256: 4c81716aa552c193a6444518b22f88ba580f2c1a5d66c39bd8f4c5c81bfc5680