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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "tar-scripts" package

Please follow the instructions below to install tar-scripts on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall tar-scripts 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 tar-scripts package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: tar-scripts
Source: tar
Version: 1.34+dfsg-1.2+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 192
Maintainer: Janos Lenart
Architecture: amd64
Depends: tar (>= 1.26+dfsg-9)
Conflicts: dump, openafs-client, tar (<< 1.26+dfsg-9)
Description: optional scripts for GNU version of the tar archiving utility
Description-md5: 6f87e8621d875a4c5ceeeda24208e7b8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tar/tar-scripts_1.34+dfsg-1.2+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 168360
MD5sum: 4b206917647f674cc3b2fe950632bcc5
SHA256: 73f53efe604d3eb2553e13051afd02a15e7a620fcc08efc433e0bc8af3a2a986