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

Last updated: January 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "magicrescue" package

This guide let you learn how to install magicrescue on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall magicrescue 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 magicrescue package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: magicrescue
Version: 1.1.10+dfsg-2
Installed-Size: 255
Maintainer: Debian Security Tools
Architecture: amd64
Depends: dcraw, flac, libjpeg-turbo-progs, mpg123, sqlite3, unzip, zip, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgdbm-compat4 (>= 1.16)
Description: recover files by looking for magic bytes
Description-md5: f5963a5d8fb84b230c54744d94eda14a
Homepage: https://github.com/jbj/magicrescue
Tag: admin::filesystem, admin::recovery, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility, use::scanning,
works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/magicrescue/magicrescue_1.1.10+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
Size: 82588
MD5sum: ba5ff35e40295d26b26898588ce09c50
SHA256: f34fe8b9fbddb10fc3c7cbde4694010455703c08c4851974dd46ce4e82b456d8