How to Install and Uninstall libtinfo5 Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: November 05,2024

1. Install "libtinfo5" package

This tutorial shows how to install libtinfo5 on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libtinfo5
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libtinfo5" package

Learn how to uninstall libtinfo5 on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libtinfo5
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libtinfo5 package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: libtinfo5
Source: ncurses
Version: 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2
Installed-Size: 506
Maintainer: Craig Small
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.16)
Breaks: dialog (<< 1.2-20130523)
Description: shared low-level terminfo library (legacy version)
Description-md5: e4089e57710bd30671fca7351b19ae90
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2_amd64.deb
Size: 320504
MD5sum: 0e3a7ac1cc18eed917be873dcaf17228
SHA256: f9d7df1e86b5376c1ae102739d04a5605386b331c8bc47ea471facaec0f63ae2