How to Install and Uninstall borgbackup2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 20,2024

You can also install and uninstall the borgbackup2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "borgbackup2" package

This tutorial shows how to install borgbackup2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "borgbackup2" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall borgbackup2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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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 borgbackup2 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: borgbackup2
Version: 2.0.0b5-1
Installed-Size: 3270
Maintainer: Freexian Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: python3-pkg-resources, python3 (<< 3.12), python3 (>= 3.11~), python3-argon2, python3-msgpack (>= 1.0.3), python3-packaging, python3-platformdirs (<< 4.0.0), python3-platformdirs (>= 2.6.0), python3:any, libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libc6 (>= 2.34), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r130), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libxxhash0 (>= 0.6.5), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2)
Recommends: python3-llfuse (<< 2.0), python3-pyfuse3, fuse
Suggests: borgbackup2-doc
Description: deduplicating and compressing backup program (version 2.x)
Description-md5: 18ebb529308383ae67945351bf0498b0
Homepage: https://borgbackup.github.io/borgbackup/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/borgbackup2/borgbackup2_2.0.0b5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 806424
MD5sum: 386b6b87935261d96d6d1a53db217f93
SHA256: 3c64650018870b1eeac94955e06f4d23344e74b07edfeacf36e4045b42f870d2