How to Install and Uninstall electric-fence Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "electric-fence" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install electric-fence on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                electric-fence
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "electric-fence" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall electric-fence on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: electric-fence
Version: 2.2.5
Installed-Size: 70
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Description: A malloc(3) debugger
Description-md5: 81225779998561422a8be51affd47171
Tag: devel::debugger, role::program, role::shared-lib,
works-with::software:running
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/electric-fence/electric-fence_2.2.5_amd64.deb
Size: 20938
MD5sum: 63a72f0c9782c02c961ca2a5872ce3bf
SHA256: ad225d3de7482bbef516a0fd26627dfbbb0a00442e02501fe43183d1a400f3b4