How to Install and Uninstall squashfs-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 22,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "squashfs-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install squashfs-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "squashfs-tools" package

Learn how to uninstall squashfs-tools 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 squashfs-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: squashfs-tools
Version: 1:4.5.1-1
Installed-Size: 456
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r130), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), liblzo2-2 (>= 2.02), libzstd1 (>= 1.4.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description: Tool to create and append to squashfs filesystems
Description-md5: 17dcc783a84cdb071acdaa9841a6522c
Homepage: https://github.com/plougher/squashfs-tools
Tag: admin::filesystem, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::compressing
Section: kernel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/squashfs-tools/squashfs-tools_4.5.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 182756
MD5sum: 3545f8f1d55fc1702e7193319c1915bc
SHA256: 3f96b16c9b985ea03cf70f90a05f4dc5c15039e845326f8f4293a3280fd0b2f4