How to Install and Uninstall git-filter-repo Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "git-filter-repo" package

Please follow the steps below to install git-filter-repo on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                git-filter-repo
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "git-filter-repo" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall git-filter-repo 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 git-filter-repo package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: git-filter-repo
Version: 2.38.0-1
Installed-Size: 342
Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Architecture: all
Depends: git (>= 1:2.22), python3:any
Recommends: git (>= 1:2.28)
Description: Quickly rewrite git repository history
Description-md5: 7bbfa4ee999d47cf3237015208223c7e
Homepage: https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo
Section: vcs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/git-filter-repo/git-filter-repo_2.38.0-1_all.deb
Size: 103024
MD5sum: 76a65c0afcafbee93ecf2628576b43d3
SHA256: 7714aa072882cb1d0a9763ed68fd454f1240ecfe4138721bab04d0843f8162e9