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

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "zip" package

Please follow the guidance below to install zip on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall zip on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: zip
Source: zip (3.0-11)
Version: 3.0-11+b1
Installed-Size: 608
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14)
Recommends: unzip
Description: Archiver for .zip files
Description-md5: 581928d34d669e63c353cd694bd040b0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::compressing, use::storing, works-with-format::zip,
works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zip/zip_3.0-11+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 233894
MD5sum: fc6d9731019b54733485ea5645a4db7c
SHA256: 3dabdf9fecbdd7cab151fd9f20355f79c150a8e939be7dcecb2c0574f8dadf69