How To Install holes on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install holes on Debian 12.
What is holes
holes is:
holes looks for runs of zero bytes (a.k.a. holes) in the specified input files (or the standard input), and prints the start addresses (in hexadecimal) as well as the lengths (in decimal). When multiple input files are specified, holes prefixes each line with the file name.
It can be used with fallocate(1), truncate(1), or virt-sparsify(1).
There are three methods to install holes 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 holes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install holes using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install holes
Install holes Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install holes using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install holes
Install holes 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 holes using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install holes
How To Uninstall holes on Debian 12
To uninstall only the holes package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove holes
Uninstall holes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall holes and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove holes
Remove holes Configurations and Data
To remove holes configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge holes
Remove holes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove holes configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge holes
Dependencies
holes have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install holes package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.