How to Install and Uninstall fuse-overlayfs Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "fuse-overlayfs" package

Please follow the instructions below to install fuse-overlayfs on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fuse-overlayfs
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fuse-overlayfs" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall fuse-overlayfs 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 fuse-overlayfs package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: fuse-overlayfs
Version: 1.10-1
Installed-Size: 113
Maintainer: Reinhard Tartler
Architecture: amd64
Depends: fuse3, libc6 (>= 2.34), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.12.0)
Description: implementation of overlay+shiftfs in FUSE for rootless containers
Description-md5: c4e052d72c2adc350355e396b2fd9e47
Homepage: https://github.com/containers/fuse-overlayfs
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fuse-overlayfs/fuse-overlayfs_1.10-1_amd64.deb
Size: 43472
MD5sum: 8e9541e32ff333f033d1829ea1c04e2c
SHA256: 2a9e6282d816a3fd843ff4aa469a0051dcac587d0685772f18839d4947b5b09c