How To Install gzip-win32 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gzip-win32 on Debian 12.
What is gzip-win32
gzip-win32 is:
This package provides the standard GNU file compression utilities, which are also the default compression tools for Debian. They typically operate on files with names ending in ‘.gz’, but can also decompress files ending in ‘.Z’ created with ‘compress’.
This is a win32 version of gzip, meant to be used by the win32-loader component of Debian-Installer.
There are three methods to install gzip-win32 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 gzip-win32 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gzip-win32 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gzip-win32
Install gzip-win32 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gzip-win32 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gzip-win32
Install gzip-win32 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 gzip-win32 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gzip-win32
How To Uninstall gzip-win32 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gzip-win32 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gzip-win32
Uninstall gzip-win32 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gzip-win32 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gzip-win32
Remove gzip-win32 Configurations and Data
To remove gzip-win32 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gzip-win32
Remove gzip-win32 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gzip-win32 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gzip-win32
Dependencies
gzip-win32 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gzip-win32 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
