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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "nim" package

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


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall nim on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: nim
Version: 0.19.4-1
Installed-Size: 10923
Maintainer: Federico Ceratto
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libssl1.1
Recommends: gcc, git
Suggests: nim-doc
Description: Nim programming language - compiler
Description-md5: 1077ec624ad7f485ec20529f4e9db6d8
Homepage: https://nim-lang.org/
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/nim/nim_0.19.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 2507880
MD5sum: 79f0a41024adf952ca60b23b776f8abd
SHA256: d52af3e2bdffc4a6aedf8a43fcef60c48c6886f0c2412fec27f2b34d6794e838