How to Install and Uninstall pristine-tar Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 18,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "pristine-tar" package

This guide let you learn how to install pristine-tar on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "pristine-tar" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall pristine-tar 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 pristine-tar package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: pristine-tar
Version: 1.50
Installed-Size: 550
Maintainer: Tomasz Buchert
Architecture: amd64
Depends: bzip2, libsys-cpuaffinity-perl, pbzip2, pixz, tar (>= 1.29b-1.1), xdelta, xdelta3, xz-utils, perl:any, libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.34), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description: regenerate pristine tarballs
Description-md5: 3cfce5eb84507505c671f03a5101c3b2
Homepage: https://kitenet.net/~joey/code/pristine-tar/
Tag: admin::backup, devel::packaging, implemented-in::perl,
interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility,
use::compressing, use::storing, works-with::vcs
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pristine-tar/pristine-tar_1.50_amd64.deb
Size: 112612
MD5sum: ff49318282695730e7cd5123f5fb93a9
SHA256: e5b09131548222d1089047057ef305faeba315004f1cdfe085efe2fbc79fb2d0