How to Install and Uninstall squashfs-tools-ng Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "squashfs-tools-ng" package

Please follow the guidance below to install squashfs-tools-ng on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall squashfs-tools-ng on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 squashfs-tools-ng package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: squashfs-tools-ng
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/kernel
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 268
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), liblzo2-2 (>= 2.02), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libsquashfs1 (>= 1.0.5)
Filename: pool/universe/s/squashfs-tools-ng/squashfs-tools-ng_1.0.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 71320
MD5sum: d8890a2177a2a73f87b3b8a37cd30570
SHA1: 188c70b3c10c1a182694167959765ef4409ffdb5
SHA256: 8d7c1a63a9a8e141b0a881951e612bf0af6a6eace9a63fc96b258bd4858ef7f0
SHA512: 2857e4d9d2fafcd002ada1bb0545b153770c919e15d61526caa45b2d49e5b7e47d60cc8d50fd20b00f41ed00ea9bc6669fa215b4998a21b00c319ffbced0a634
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