How To Install libsquashfuse0 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libsquashfuse0 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libsquashfuse0 is FUSE filesystem to mount squashfs archives library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfuse0 on Debian 12.

What is libsquashfuse0

libsquashfuse0 is:

This lets you mount SquashFS archives in user-space. It supports almost all features of the SquashFS format, yet is still fast and memory-efficient.

SquashFS is an efficiently compressed, read-only storage format. Support for it has been built into the Linux kernel since 2009. It is very common on Live CDs and embedded Linux distributions.

This package contains the squashfuse library

There are three methods to install libsquashfuse0 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 libsquashfuse0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libsquashfuse0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libsquashfuse0

Install libsquashfuse0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libsquashfuse0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libsquashfuse0

Install libsquashfuse0 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 libsquashfuse0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libsquashfuse0

How To Uninstall libsquashfuse0 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libsquashfuse0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libsquashfuse0

Uninstall libsquashfuse0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libsquashfuse0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsquashfuse0

Remove libsquashfuse0 Configurations and Data

To remove libsquashfuse0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libsquashfuse0

Remove libsquashfuse0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libsquashfuse0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsquashfuse0

Dependencies

libsquashfuse0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libsquashfuse0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.