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

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "libreadline-dev" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libreadline-dev on Debian 10 (Buster)


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

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


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

Package: libreadline-dev
Source: readline
Version: 7.0-5
Installed-Size: 711
Maintainer: Matthias Klose
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libreadline6-dev
Depends: libreadline7 (= 7.0-5), libncurses-dev, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Suggests: readline-doc
Conflicts: libreadline-gplv2-dev, libreadline5-dev, libreadline6-dev
Description: GNU readline and history libraries, development files
Description-md5: 3793ef1d4c2c0318abafe0980aadcd30
Multi-Arch: same
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, role::dummy
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/readline/libreadline-dev_7.0-5_amd64.deb
Size: 133080
MD5sum: 598a61fe8c478af47b0fceaafef82af3
SHA256: cc2b84bd38f821ef109638cf1d5f5e06c71d1b6a038d5006d1fe238900f189d5