How to Install and Uninstall console-common Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "console-common" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install console-common on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                console-common
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "console-common" package

Learn how to uninstall console-common on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                console-common
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the console-common package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: console-common
Version: 0.7.90+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 481
Maintainer: Alastair McKinstry
Architecture: all
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, debianutils (>= 1.13), console-data, kbd, lsb-base (>= 3.0)
Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
Description: basic infrastructure for text console configuration
Description-md5: 5701d23e42422d382f953b99bef48552
Tag: admin::configuring, hardware::input, role::app-data, role::program,
use::configuring
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/console-common/console-common_0.7.90+deb10u1_all.deb
Size: 107336
MD5sum: 73305062a323477b8c4945fa60ebaf7d
SHA256: 9af16532661e3e82ec64d28273d76068375d510db5f1886d1d4e84cbf9d71c4f