How to Install and Uninstall bzip2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 29,2024

You can also install and uninstall the bzip2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "bzip2" package

Learn how to install bzip2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "bzip2" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall bzip2 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 bzip2 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bzip2
Source: bzip2 (1.0.8-5)
Version: 1.0.8-5+b1
Installed-Size: 121
Maintainer: Anibal Monsalve Salazar
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libbz2 (<< 0.9.5d-3)
Depends: libbz2-1.0 (= 1.0.8-5+b1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: bzip2-doc
Description: high-quality block-sorting file compressor - utilities
Description-md5: 1e71313ce794d3de1e3bc63ac58885b5
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://sourceware.org/bzip2/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::compressing, works-with-format::TODO,
works-with::archive, works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/b/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8-5+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 49804
MD5sum: 0a6d457ccb2d12b5b56ef3330c7bdb63
SHA256: 438871b3f5c5c7a357a9840951dab9dab8db7eb1ff760a563226fafa111b99e5