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

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "parallel" package

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


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

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


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

Package: parallel
Version: 20161222-1.1
Installed-Size: 994
Maintainer: Rogério Brito
Architecture: all
Depends: perl, procps, sysstat, perl:any
Description: build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel
Description-md5: 8a851a81a172dd16a4bcbeb1f8f3c4ab
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/parallel/parallel_20161222-1.1_all.deb
Size: 306072
MD5sum: b4d7fb7e80e96fded3e1b73e8222ce92
SHA256: 09cfcbcc6f80fba0841db505a3c50e39b79d52fd4e363ada4317ead25e3ead0a