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

Last updated: December 25,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "overlayroot" package

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


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

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

Package: overlayroot
Source: cloud-initramfs-tools
Version: 0.18.debian13
Installed-Size: 63
Maintainer: Debian Cloud
Architecture: all
Depends: cryptsetup, cryptsetup-bin, initramfs-tools
Suggests: haveged
Description: use an overlayfs on top of a read-only root filesystem
Description-md5: 994a1e190cc10da9cb6f340384617d3c
Homepage: http://launchpad.net/cloud-initramfs-tools
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cloud-initramfs-tools/overlayroot_0.18.debian13_all.deb
Size: 15360
MD5sum: 8a6674ff8f5ce64cba545f36c13aceef
SHA256: ae6fd63f196caaa037f78d1716c80d1f293ed239c3b2b72520a5c65629569209