How To Install distrobox on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install distrobox on Debian 12.
What is distrobox
distrobox is:
Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal. Distrobox uses podman or docker to create containers using the Linux distribution of your choice. Created container will be tightly integrated with the host, allowing to share the HOME directory of the user, external storage, external usb devices and graphical apps (X11/Wayland) and audio.
There are three methods to install distrobox 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 distrobox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install distrobox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install distrobox
Install distrobox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install distrobox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install distrobox
Install distrobox 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 distrobox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install distrobox
How To Uninstall distrobox on Debian 12
To uninstall only the distrobox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove distrobox
Uninstall distrobox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall distrobox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove distrobox
Remove distrobox Configurations and Data
To remove distrobox configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge distrobox
Remove distrobox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove distrobox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge distrobox
Dependencies
distrobox have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install distrobox package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
