How To Install fuse-zip on Debian 12

Learn how to install fuse-zip on Debian 12 with this tutorial. fuse-zip is ZIP archive mounter based on FUSE

Introduction

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

What is fuse-zip

fuse-zip is:

fuse-zip is a FUSE file system to navigate, extract, create and modify ZIP archives. With fuse-zip, you can work with ZIP archives as real directories.

fuse-zip is faster that other known FUSE implementations of ZIP directories, and includes full write support.

There are three methods to install fuse-zip 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-zip 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-zip using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fuse-zip

Install fuse-zip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fuse-zip

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

sudo aptitude -y install fuse-zip

How To Uninstall fuse-zip on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove fuse-zip

Uninstall fuse-zip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fuse-zip

Remove fuse-zip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fuse-zip

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

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

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

Dependencies

fuse-zip have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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