How to Install and Uninstall squashfs-tools-ng Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "squashfs-tools-ng" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install squashfs-tools-ng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "squashfs-tools-ng" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall squashfs-tools-ng on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the squashfs-tools-ng package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: squashfs-tools-ng
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 274
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), liblzo2-2 (>= 2.02), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libsquashfs1 (>= 1.0.1)
Filename: pool/universe/s/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 67768
MD5sum: ab8b935b29c78ec4d4b6b1952ea0bf8a
SHA1: 900bdcc8f3aee4111c1b97c3e41089ba45d6025c
SHA256: 8727ada996762fb4a777413e9eb6ad33f79e7ea392bbe846834bc04546046ad6
SHA512: edabc346f92d4e26b9ec66370d6fb805aad185010e7b192e32684e2547d77db7a136fdd4f32aee0eae34d4670c9d433a5eeac7b97f0d7639801e8f6f273def43
Homepage: https://github.com/AgentD/squashfs-tools-ng
Description-en: New set of tools for working with SquashFS images
SquashFS is a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux, optimized
for small size and high packing density. It is widely used in embedded
systems and bootable live media.
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SquashFS supports many different compression formats, such as zstd, xz,
zlib or lzo for both data and metadata compression. It has many features
expected from popular filesystems, such as extended attributes and support
for NFS export.
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As the name suggests, this is not the original user space tooling for
SquashFS. Here are some of the features that primarily distinguish this
package from the original:
- reproducible SquashFS images, i.e. deterministic packing without
any local time stamps,
- Linux `gen_init_cpio` like file listing for micro managing the
file system contents, permissions, and ownership without having to
replicate the file system (and especially permissions) locally,
- support for SELinux contexts file (see selabel_file(5)) to generate
SELinux labels.
Description-md5: 84c7309883317bf3687939dc46c4a0d9