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

Last updated: December 26,2024

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

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1. Install "distrobox" package

Learn how to install distrobox on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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


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

Package: distrobox
Version: 1.4.2.1-1
Installed-Size: 337
Maintainer: Michel Alexandre Salim
Architecture: all
Depends: podman | docker.io
Description: Another tool for containerized command line environments on Linux
Description-md5: 29b6ca23388e8d3778e27c2a997f0122
Homepage: https://distrobox.privatedns.org/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/distrobox/distrobox_1.4.2.1-1_all.deb
Size: 183048
MD5sum: 99ace948789675afbf0db1a49d926c54
SHA256: 19ff507f59a6cbcc7650e5ab67dd9db976aec1e34875735051c2440dcf463efd