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

Last updated: November 22,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "pax" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install pax on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall pax 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 pax package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: pax
Version: 1:20201030-1
Installed-Size: 170
Maintainer: Thorsten Glaser
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.26)
Enhances: arj, binutils, cpio, dpkg, gzip, lha, libarchive-tools, p7zip, rar, star, tar, unrar, unzip, zip
Description: Portable Archive Interchange (cpio, pax, tar)
Description-md5: 6a13dcd72d0208af12f4a865635b9dac
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.mirbsd.org/pax.htm
Tag: admin::backup, admin::file-distribution, admin::filesystem,
devel::lang:c, devel::library, devel::packaging, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, made-of::man, role::devel-lib,
role::documentation, role::program, scope::utility, suite::bsd,
use::compressing, use::converting, use::storing,
works-with-format::TODO, works-with-format::tar, works-with::archive,
works-with::file
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pax/pax_20201030-1_amd64.deb
Size: 84268
MD5sum: bdb06dd9e95a31df879a3f3c55709922
SHA256: 40a76bd38542f3fb0999285cf3bc2558302918547d5f7092d534057ea5833b66