How To Install mscompress on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mscompress
on Debian 11.
What is mscompress
mscompress is:
This package contains two programs:
- msexpand which decompresses files compressed by the Microsoft compress.exe utility (e.g. Win 3.x installation files);
- mscompress which compresses files using the LZ77 compression algorithm.
Files can be decompressed using Microsoft expand.exe or msexpand(1).
There are three methods to install mscompress
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mscompress Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mscompress
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mscompress
Install mscompress Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mscompress
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mscompress
Install mscompress 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 mscompress
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mscompress
How To Uninstall mscompress on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mscompress
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mscompress
Uninstall mscompress And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mscompress
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mscompress
Remove mscompress Configurations and Data
To remove mscompress
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mscompress
Remove mscompress configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mscompress
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mscompress
Dependencies
mscompress have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mscompress
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.