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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "pixz" package

Learn how to install pixz on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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

Package: pixz
Version: 1.0.7-2
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Leon Marz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.0.4), libc6 (>= 2.33), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614)
Description: parallel, indexing XZ compressor/decompressor
Description-md5: 7e123820a7d60a2adcb2daed2441c2dd
Homepage: https://github.com/vasi/pixz
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pixz/pixz_1.0.7-2_amd64.deb
Size: 21208
MD5sum: 0515968c1f1f0b9a7bf2c5775d01832f
SHA256: 8b91523ca082ba77dd01c679b41d13d69611efc65fd15487f3570bbf58e492dc