How to Install and Uninstall libc6-dev Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 16,2025

1. Install "libc6-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libc6-dev on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libc6-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libc6-dev on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libc6-dev package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: libc6-dev
Source: glibc
Version: 2.28-10+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 18937
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libc-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.28-10+deb10u1), libc-dev-bin (= 2.28-10+deb10u1), linux-libc-dev
Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev
Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev
Breaks: binutils (<< 2.26), binutils-gold (<< 2.20.1-11), cmake (<< 2.8.4+dfsg.1-5), gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12), libhwloc-dev (<< 1.2-3), libjna-java (<< 3.2.7-4), liblouis-dev (<< 2.3.0-2), liblouisxml-dev (<< 2.4.0-2), libperl5.26 (<< 5.26.1-3), make (<< 3.81-8.1), pkg-config (<< 0.26-1)
Description: GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
Description-md5: 1bbdc717d9acdb44db940928d570e749
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Build-Essential: yes
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c, role::devel-lib,
suite::gnu
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.28-10+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 2691760
MD5sum: de30395984dae81baf4fa105956cf8cb
SHA256: 76b8413920d91a9a4289f99839933d0d30095e0ec12b05bb4f1a7f27e5ef4a55