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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "dracut-live" package

Please follow the instructions below to install dracut-live on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall dracut-live on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: dracut-live
Source: dracut
Version: 059-4
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Thomas Lange
Architecture: all
Replaces: dracut-core (<< 050-1), dracut-network (<< 050-1)
Depends: dracut-core, dmsetup
Recommends: dracut-network
Breaks: dracut-core (<< 050-1), dracut-network (<< 050-1)
Description: dracut is an event driven initramfs infrastructure (live image modules)
Description-md5: 82eda9955b37992c0f2f77558a84b7d8
Homepage: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/wiki/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dracut/dracut-live_059-4_all.deb
Size: 16096
MD5sum: 37b7f6543457f17af7eabf6404c60303
SHA256: f9f1d06babe2ef2ccdf313fee118a6e059141daeb5efa0167b676fe5f42a34c7