How to Install and Uninstall flex Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: April 19,2024

1. Install "flex" package

Please follow the guidance below to install flex on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "flex" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall flex on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: flex
Version: 2.6.4-6.2
Installed-Size: 1225
Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.26), m4
Pre-Depends: debconf | debconf-2.0
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler, libfl-dev
Suggests: bison, build-essential, flex-doc
Description: fast lexical analyzer generator
Description-md5: c30a7ef9a61fca3debe97b92c3f65013
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/westes/flex
Tag: devel::code-generator, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, works-with::software:source
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/flex/flex_2.6.4-6.2_amd64.deb
Size: 455944
MD5sum: 34776a74762dd3ec6878f0d0576fe96c
SHA256: 4ed34fb21abd770d0c05bebe0b90f367a5c64dc197ecb6b22bb0ed1379708df4