How to Install and Uninstall bruteforce-luks Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 29,2024

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

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "bruteforce-luks" package

This tutorial shows how to install bruteforce-luks on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "bruteforce-luks" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall bruteforce-luks 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 bruteforce-luks package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bruteforce-luks
Version: 1.4.0-4
Installed-Size: 47
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libcryptsetup12 (>= 2:1.4)
Description: Try to find a password of a LUKS encrypted volume
Description-md5: 7200d3fb2c51ec59b9c10d40efe5b1d8
Homepage: https://github.com/glv2/bruteforce-luks
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bruteforce-luks/bruteforce-luks_1.4.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 13100
MD5sum: dd37a6e627daddd853147f18802adb50
SHA256: 86ced0ac2f60125a54df2a1cb059fe979c39049969bf599bbc5f653ce2b2a1d1