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

Last updated: July 05,2024

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

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1. Install "gosu" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install gosu on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall gosu on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: gosu
Source: gosu (1.14-1)
Version: 1.14-1+b6
Installed-Size: 2185
Maintainer: pkg-go
Architecture: amd64
Description: Simple Go-based setuid+setgid+setgroups+exec
Description-md5: 72c0b42347139534207936c653f27fc4
Homepage: https://github.com/tianon/gosu
Built-Using: golang-1.19 (= 1.19.8-2), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.3.0-1), runc (= 1.1.5+ds1-1)
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gosu/gosu_1.14-1+b6_amd64.deb
Size: 766100
MD5sum: 26922f45df010c5607abf1b03f8f3763
SHA256: 92f5292d59a155e2c9c27638124589f13571257b5c75102498cad30bc2a5f6e6