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

Last updated: May 15,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "restic" package

This tutorial shows how to install restic on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall restic 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 restic package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: restic
Source: restic (0.14.0-1)
Version: 0.14.0-1+b5
Installed-Size: 21665
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: fuse
Suggests: libjs-sphinxdoc (>= 5.2), sphinx-rtd-theme-common (>= 1.2.0+dfsg)
Description: backup program with multiple revisions, encryption and more
Description-md5: 306158c67df1c70aca079d38e0afc1e3
Homepage: https://github.com/restic/restic
Built-Using: go-md2man-v2 (= 2.0.2+ds1-1), golang-1.19 (= 1.19.8-2), golang-bazil-fuse (= 0.0~git20160811.0.371fbbd-4), golang-blackfriday-v2 (= 2.1.0-1), golang-github-azure-azure-sdk-for-go (= 68.0.0-2), golang-github-azure-go-autorest (= 14.2.0+git20220726.711dde1-1), golang-github-cenkalti-backoff (= 4.1.3-1), golang-github-cespare-xxhash (= 2.1.1-2), golang-github-elithrar-simple-scrypt (= 1.3.0-2), golang-github-gofrs-uuid (= 4.3.1-1), golang-github-golang-groupcache (= 0.0~git20200121.8c9f03a-2), golang-github-golang-jwt-jwt (= 4.4.3-1), golang-github-golang-protobuf-1-3 (= 1.3.5-4), golang-github-google-uuid (= 1.3.0-1), golang-github-googleapis-gax-go (= 2.0.5-4), golang-github-hashicorp-golang-lru (= 0.5.4-2), golang-github-json-iterator-go (= 1.1.12-1), golang-github-juju-ratelimit (= 1.0.1-1.1), golang-github-klauspost-compress (= 1.15.12+ds1-3), golang-github-klauspost-cpuid (= 2.2.3-1), golang-github-kr-fs (= 0.1.0-2), golang-github-kurin-blazer (= 0.5.3-1), golang-github-minio-md5-simd (= 1.1.2-4), golang-github-minio-minio-go-v7 (= 7.0.46-1), golang-github-minio-sha256-simd (= 1.0.0-1), golang-github-modern-go-concurrent (= 1.0.3-1.1), golang-github-modern-go-reflect2 (= 1.0.2-2), golang-github-ncw-swift-v2 (= 2.0.1-1.1), golang-github-pkg-errors (= 0.9.1-2), golang-github-pkg-sftp (= 1.13.5-2), golang-github-pkg-xattr (= 0.4.9-1), golang-github-restic-chunker (= 0.4.0-2), golang-github-rs-xid (= 1.4.0-1), golang-github-spf13-cobra (= 1.6.1-1), golang-github-spf13-pflag (= 1.0.6~git20210604-d5e0c0615ace-1), golang-go.crypto (= 1:0.4.0-1), golang-go.opencensus (= 0.24.0-1), golang-golang-x-net (= 1:0.7.0+dfsg-1), golang-golang-x-oauth2 (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.1.0-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-term (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.7.0-1), golang-google-api (= 0.61.0-1), golang-google-cloud (= 0.56.0-3), golang-google-genproto (= 0.0~git20200413.b5235f6-3), golang-google-grpc (= 1.33.3-2), golang-gopkg-ini.v1 (= 1.66.2-1), golang-gopkg-yaml.v3 (= 3.0.1-3)
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/restic/restic_0.14.0-1+b5_amd64.deb
Size: 7486864
MD5sum: 73daa851102c2c2c3f1005500e727fca
SHA256: 9d7e8c210736f3f15ed7cf425ab56aa5259b07d8422b958494bfd4359b5024d1