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

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "usrmerge" package

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


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall usrmerge 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 usrmerge package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: usrmerge
Version: 37~deb12u1
Installed-Size: 40
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri
Architecture: all
Provides: usr-is-merged
Depends: perl:any, libfile-find-rule-perl
Conflicts: acl (<< 2.2.52-3~), arptables (<< 0.0.4+snapshot20181021-1~), coreutils (<< 8.24-1~), cruft (<< 0.9.44~), cryptsetup (<< 2:1.7.0-1~), davfs2 (<< 1.5.2-1.2~), debianutils (<< 4.5~), dhcpcd (<< 1:5~), ebtables (<< 2.0.10.4+snapshot20181205-1~), elvis-tiny (<< 1.4-24~), kbd (<< 2.0.4-4~), ksh (<< 93u+20120801-3.1~), less (<< 481-2~), libbrlapi-dev (<< 5.3.1-1~), libc-bin (<< 2.36-9~), libc0.1 (<< 2.35-4), libc0.3 (<< 2.35-4), libc6 (<< 2.35-4), libc6.1 (<< 2.35-4), libdm0-dev, libjson-c-dev (<< 0.12.1-1.1~), libparted1.8-10 (<< 1.8.8.git.2008.03.24-11.2~), libpng12-0 (<< 1.2.54-6~), libusb-0.1-4 (<< 2:0.1.12-28~), lustre-utils (<< 1.8.5+dfsg-3.2~), mksh (<< 52b-1~), molly-guard (<< 0.7.1+exp1~), musl-dev (<< 1.1.9-1.1~), nano (<< 2.3.99pre3-1~), open-iscsi (<< 2.0.873+git0.3b4b4500-13~), open-vm-tools (<< 2:10.0.5-3227872-2~), policycoreutils (<< 2.4-4~), safe-rm (<< 0.12-6~), tcsh (<< 6.18.01-4~), vsearch (<< 1.9.5-2~), xfsdump (<< 3.1.6+nmu1~), xfslibs-dev (<< 4.9.0+nmu1~), yp-tools (<< 3.3-5~), zsh (<< 5.2-4~)
Breaks: cruft-ng (<< 0.4.4~), initramfs-tools (<< 0.121~)
Description: Convert the system to the merged /usr directories scheme
Description-md5: 10837a6ab3829ea00e1c00ee0d0394f0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge
Tag: admin::filesystem, admin::install, implemented-in::perl,
interface::commandline, role::program, suite::debian, use::configuring
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/u/usrmerge/usrmerge_37~deb12u1_all.deb
Size: 13336
MD5sum: efc86a3eb97578099b41762417571d7b
SHA256: 8a25318213244f075b56363408c87a519ed8cef24b270c3d045ef35d695de13a