How to Install and Uninstall libonig5 Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "libonig5" package

This is a short guide on how to install libonig5 on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libonig5
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libonig5" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libonig5 on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libonig5
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libonig5 package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: libonig5
Source: libonig
Version: 6.9.1-1
Installed-Size: 616
Maintainer: Jörg Frings-Fürst
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Description: regular expressions library
Description-md5: 21359fc7589f6e7db0298bfd50daeb8d
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libo/libonig/libonig5_6.9.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 171216
MD5sum: 80c18c9122b17d1424204ba63f599e6d
SHA256: 0e34268dcb8d037d88d038030e61c89ee7f6d0923ba828574b8acddc19519ff3