How to Install and Uninstall squashfuse Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "squashfuse" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install squashfuse on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall squashfuse on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                squashfuse
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the squashfuse package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: squashfuse
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.1.100-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Stéphane Graber
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 53
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r113), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20110809), liblzo2-2, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/s/squashfuse/squashfuse_0.1.100-0ubuntu1~ubuntu16.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 17430
MD5sum: 887778a1b145d9a1b73f24b63f829033
SHA1: 221665eb2a9c2c1dc71f016ac691ed9f9c379207
SHA256: 28426962470de7b9b38843a77f2771e610577d5ce6ecba35232dcc5e16d41175
SHA512: 6419cdae5d6914d4109b96b9e38d9b9a00e36e4e95ba1d6c064e84de751d052ff18647d8d43b9fae857cbc0b9c124831f2fba8487872a83f7a70eeb3ea0f71a0
Homepage: https://github.com/vasi/squashfuse
Description-en: FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives
This lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost
all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.
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SquashFS is an efficiently compressed, read-only storage format.
Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009. It is
very common on Live CDs and embedded Linux distributions.
Description-md5: 0abda75cb957b3b82c5f13bc4875582d