How to Install and Uninstall m4 Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: January 10,2025

1. Install "m4" package

This tutorial shows how to install m4 on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                m4
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "m4" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall m4 on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                m4
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the m4 package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: m4
Version: 1.4.18-2
Installed-Size: 353
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9)
Suggests: m4-doc
Description: macro processing language
Description-md5: 4d2d2315ae3e9465f92825939c8db872
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnu
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/m4/m4_1.4.18-2_amd64.deb
Size: 203164
MD5sum: 36a8dc8fba98e2cba38a2e36d0aa949d
SHA256: 37076cc03a19863eb6c4ec2afb3e79328c19fdc506176bfe8ffcada6d0f7d099