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

Last updated: April 27,2024

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

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1. Install "zip" package

This is a short guide on how to install zip on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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

Package: zip
Version: 3.0-13
Installed-Size: 616
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: unzip
Description: Archiver for .zip files
Description-md5: 581928d34d669e63c353cd694bd040b0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://infozip.sourceforge.net/Zip.html
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::compressing, use::storing, works-with-format::zip,
works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zip/zip_3.0-13_amd64.deb
Size: 229532
MD5sum: f689ffe4e4d23c1319843b6e62a1a066
SHA256: 8877a360e455c7b9b6d448503eeaacc6b9a1325b548f3fb7eef69a87ab558b96