How To Install bsdcpio on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdcpio on Debian 10.
What is bsdcpio
bsdcpio is:
The bsdcpio program is the default system ‘cpio’ program used on FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats.
This is a transitional package for the migration of the bsdcpio tool to the libarchive-tools package.
There are three methods to install bsdcpio on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bsdcpio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdcpio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bsdcpio
Install bsdcpio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdcpio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bsdcpio
Install bsdcpio Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdcpio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bsdcpio
How To Uninstall bsdcpio on Debian 10
To uninstall only the bsdcpio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bsdcpio
Uninstall bsdcpio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bsdcpio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bsdcpio
Remove bsdcpio Configurations and Data
To remove bsdcpio configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bsdcpio
Remove bsdcpio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bsdcpio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bsdcpio
Dependencies
bsdcpio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdcpio package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
