How To Install fuse-overlayfs on Debian 12

Learn how to install fuse-overlayfs on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fuse-overlayfs is implementation of overlay+shiftfs in FUSE for rootless containers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-overlayfs on Debian 12.

What is fuse-overlayfs

fuse-overlayfs is:

This package provides an overlayfs FUSE implementation so that it can be used since Linux 4.18 by unprivileged users in an user namespace.

There are three methods to install fuse-overlayfs 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 fuse-overlayfs Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fuse-overlayfs

Install fuse-overlayfs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fuse-overlayfs

Install fuse-overlayfs 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 fuse-overlayfs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fuse-overlayfs

How To Uninstall fuse-overlayfs on Debian 12

To uninstall only the fuse-overlayfs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fuse-overlayfs

Uninstall fuse-overlayfs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fuse-overlayfs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fuse-overlayfs

Remove fuse-overlayfs Configurations and Data

To remove fuse-overlayfs configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fuse-overlayfs

Remove fuse-overlayfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fuse-overlayfs

Dependencies

fuse-overlayfs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuse-overlayfs package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.