How to Install and Uninstall dracut-core Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "dracut-core" package

This tutorial shows how to install dracut-core on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "dracut-core" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall dracut-core 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 dracut-core package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: dracut-core
Source: dracut
Version: 059-4
Installed-Size: 1442
Maintainer: Thomas Lange
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: dracut-live (<< 059-2), dracut-network (<< 057+157-2)
Depends: cpio, kmod, udev, kpartx, libkmod2 (>= 22~), e2fsprogs, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: cryptsetup, dmsetup, dmraid, lvm2, mdadm, console-setup, binutils, systemd, pigz, pkg-config
Breaks: dracut-live (<< 059-2), dracut-network (<< 057+157-2)
Description: dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure (core tools)
Description-md5: 5df7edfd996e6db7e65cd0435ed243c3
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/wiki/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dracut/dracut-core_059-4_amd64.deb
Size: 323184
MD5sum: 6053c2c23c40b5d59d56d83c78910ac4
SHA256: d0598a5f7b5dcdd1172303a9da4c156a2b6df75fd85a97bc3d228bfafa5f39f9