How To Install fusefat on Debian 10

Learn how to install fusefat on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fusefat is File System in User Space - Module for FAT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusefat on Debian 10.

What is fusefat

fusefat is:

This module for the FUSE kernel service allows any FUSE-enabled user to mount FAT file systems.

The module has been initially written for UMView, the user-mode implementation of View-OS. If you want to allow completely user-mode disk images mounting (with no kernel/superuser support at all), take a look at umview-mod-umfusefat and its dependencies.

There are three methods to install fusefat 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 fusefat Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fusefat using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fusefat

Install fusefat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fusefat using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fusefat

Install fusefat 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 fusefat using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fusefat

How To Uninstall fusefat on Debian 10

To uninstall only the fusefat package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fusefat

Uninstall fusefat And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fusefat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fusefat

Remove fusefat Configurations and Data

To remove fusefat configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fusefat

Remove fusefat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fusefat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fusefat

Dependencies

fusefat have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fusefat package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.