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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "nscd" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install nscd on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install nscd

2. Uninstall "nscd" package

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

$ sudo apt remove nscd $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the nscd package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: nscd
Source: glibc
Version: 2.28-10+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 420
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libc6 (>> 2.28), libc6 (<< 2.29), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.82)
Description: GNU C Library: Name Service Cache Daemon
Description-md5: e8172254ec0df735a3e44c0f557100bc
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Tag: interface::daemon, network::server, protocol::dns, role::program,
suite::gnu, use::proxying
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/nscd_2.28-10+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 281896
MD5sum: 4375c0f439890f4d092a3ff616b5f46c
SHA256: 18b7b19ebd0b17bb34f7823a28e0d32522d2e633993c2fcb292c7cf9fd05fb83