How To Install makefs on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install makefs
on Debian 11.
What is makefs
makefs is:
NetBSD? makefs(8) creates a filesystem image from a directory tree without the need for superuser privileges. The MirBSD version fixes ECMA 119, SUSP and RRIP (Rock Ridge) compliance and adds features.
Supported target filesystem types are:
cd9660 ISO 9660 (ECMA 119) compatible filesystem images, with
Rock Ridge, El Torito, and other features
ffs 4.2FFS, the BSD Fast Filesystem, also known as UFS1;
UFS2 (with "-o version=2")
The images created can be of a fixed (predefined) size, given on the command line, or sized automatically. Permission bits are taken from the source directory tree but may be overridden using an mtree file.
This utility does not currently support Large Files (2 GiB or more).
There are three methods to install makefs
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install makefs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install makefs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install makefs
Install makefs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install makefs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install makefs
Install makefs 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 makefs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install makefs
How To Uninstall makefs on Debian 11
To uninstall only the makefs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove makefs
Uninstall makefs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall makefs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove makefs
Remove makefs Configurations and Data
To remove makefs
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge makefs
Remove makefs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove makefs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge makefs
Dependencies
makefs have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install makefs
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.