How to Install and Uninstall zlib1g-dev Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "zlib1g-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install zlib1g-dev on Debian 10 (Buster)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install zlib1g-dev

2. Uninstall "zlib1g-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall zlib1g-dev on Debian 10 (Buster):

$ sudo apt remove zlib1g-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the zlib1g-dev package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: zlib1g-dev
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 426
Maintainer: Mark Brown
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libz-dev
Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1), libc6-dev | libc-dev
Conflicts: zlib1-dev
Description: compression library - development
Description-md5: d7f4e8a626131fc83c643c5d59096290
Homepage: http://zlib.net/
Multi-Arch: same
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/updates/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.11.dfsg-1+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 209688
MD5sum: d810ed2a22b243a65f874d934c525beb
SHA256: 5388eddffd879bdd0002fb0996d6b9400d0ac0ab3a87eceb6d80ca43ed82dfeb

Package: zlib1g-dev
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 446
Maintainer: Mark Brown
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libz-dev
Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.11.dfsg-1), libc6-dev | libc-dev
Conflicts: zlib1-dev
Description: compression library - development
Description-md5: d7f4e8a626131fc83c643c5d59096290
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://zlib.net/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, use::compressing
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g-dev_1.2.11.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 213992
MD5sum: 0deb810efaac9b69cb3a81c4ae6cf433
SHA256: ad2fa6d373ab18c3fc729e3a477e8b999ad33480170bd0d8966e9c7fd4843837