How to Install and Uninstall original-awk Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: April 18,2024

1. Install "original-awk" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install original-awk on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                original-awk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "original-awk" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall original-awk on Debian 10 (Buster):


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

Package: original-awk
Version: 2012-12-20-6
Installed-Size: 161
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Description: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2012-12-20-6_amd64.deb
Size: 69854
MD5sum: cc80c7220fc670467f790ad56b463a81
SHA256: 29257e2e680215cf49a1924e187ca23a465b1754e10c427f026f99f6d79efc63