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

Last updated: January 09,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "rear" package

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


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall rear on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                rear
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the rear package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: rear
Version: 2.7+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 3565
Maintainer: Frédéric Bonnard
Architecture: amd64
Depends: attr, bc, binutils, dosfstools, e2fsprogs, ethtool, fdisk | util-linux (<< 2.29.2-3~), gawk, iproute2, iputils-ping, isolinux, kbd, lsb-release, net-tools, openssl, parted, syslinux, syslinux-common, xorriso
Recommends: nfs-client, portmap, extlinux
Description: Bare metal disaster recovery and system migration framework
Description-md5: 4de665cc6ca45ffe13b7a19630f9e260
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://relax-and-recover.org/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/rear/rear_2.7+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 510248
MD5sum: 31dcb0b840bd88372fe4ac6ccbe96981
SHA256: e241bb5c6583c9408dc089bf7c9396ee8e3a6617ccad7c9830195c0776074fd6