How to Install and Uninstall zip Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: April 27,2024

1. Install "zip" package

This tutorial shows how to install zip on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall zip on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                zip
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the zip package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: zip
Version: 3.0-12
Installed-Size: 623
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.14)
Recommends: unzip
Description: Archiver for .zip files
Description-md5: 581928d34d669e63c353cd694bd040b0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.info-zip.org/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_3.0-12_amd64.deb
Size: 232104
MD5sum: c3d7492dbd205dadce4ea94bbd557f70
SHA256: 6b9be8ba027e582eba7e8d83cdaa7c3248c7d923603459cf8483e7a369b04ec3