How To Install gzip on Debian 10

Learn how to install gzip on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gzip is GNU compression utilities

Introduction

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

What is gzip

gzip is:

This package provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian. They typically operate on files with names ending in ‘.gz’, but can also decompress files ending in ‘.Z’ created with ‘compress’.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gzip

Install gzip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gzip

Install gzip 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 gzip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gzip

How To Uninstall gzip on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove gzip

Uninstall gzip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gzip

Remove gzip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gzip

Remove gzip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gzip

Dependencies

gzip have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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