How to Install and Uninstall bzip3 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 31,2025

You can also install and uninstall the bzip3 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "bzip3" package

This tutorial shows how to install bzip3 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bzip3
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bzip3" package

Learn how to uninstall bzip3 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                bzip3
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the bzip3 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bzip3
Version: 1.2.2-2
Installed-Size: 62
Maintainer: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbzip3-0 (= 1.2.2-2), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: better, faster and stronger spiritual successor to bzip2 - utilities
Description-md5: 534c1eb2c73c4cad2d2a389ba4da60d4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/kspalaiologos/bzip3
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bzip3/bzip3_1.2.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 16800
MD5sum: b7cc62a21f10c5c3a27e10f938b3184c
SHA256: 247f14c0fcf8248ea7b7bc4b151716d1699581be23a342331298533e9e236ea1