How to Install and Uninstall libarchive-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libarchive-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install libarchive-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libarchive-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libarchive-tools 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 libarchive-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libarchive-tools
Source: libarchive
Version: 3.6.2-1
Installed-Size: 198
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.6.2-1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools
Description-md5: 04bbebb441868f4c976e664833572c46
Homepage: https://www.libarchive.org/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-tools_3.6.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 73588
MD5sum: 384130fc6e199e44593c1ecb3dd2c8f6
SHA256: 3957b6ae1ae4121c2d75de2edd5cf863f701e2604483aa8d592e7cd3af37451a