How To Install bzip3 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bzip3 on Debian 12.
What is bzip3
bzip3 is:
Features higher compression ratios and better performance thanks to a order-0 context mixing entropy coder, a fast Burrows-Wheeler transform code making use of suffix arrays and a RLE with Lempel Ziv+Prediction pass based on LZ77-style string matching and PPM-style context modeling.
This package contains files that is tool using libbzip3.
There are three methods to install bzip3 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bzip3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bzip3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bzip3
Install bzip3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bzip3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bzip3
Install bzip3 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 bzip3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bzip3
How To Uninstall bzip3 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the bzip3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bzip3
Uninstall bzip3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bzip3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bzip3
Remove bzip3 Configurations and Data
To remove bzip3 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bzip3
Remove bzip3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bzip3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bzip3
Dependencies
bzip3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bzip3 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
