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

Last updated: December 23,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "zerofree" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install zerofree on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall zerofree 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 zerofree package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: zerofree
Version: 1.1.1-1
Installed-Size: 25
Maintainer: Thibaut Paumard
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libext2fs2 (>= 1.42)
Description: zero free blocks from ext2, ext3 and ext4 file-systems
Description-md5: e8c47b284082ddf9145a003c9cbeafdb
Homepage: https://frippery.org/uml/
Tag: admin::filesystem, implemented-in::c, role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zerofree/zerofree_1.1.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 8432
MD5sum: b8b61b74a32c3abdb7973f60240b09c0
SHA256: 1c80a55c506c8ebc8a16abd9a42ab638470c3be7a3e45c6257ffa911dd8f842e