How to Install and Uninstall a2ps Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 28,2024

You can also install and uninstall the a2ps on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "a2ps" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install a2ps on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "a2ps" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall a2ps on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the a2ps package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: a2ps
Version: 1:4.14-8
Installed-Size: 3644
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Depends: file, psutils, libc6 (>= 2.34), libpaper1
Recommends: bzip2, lpr | rlpr | cups-client, wdiff
Suggests: emacsen-common, ghostscript, graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat | imagemagick, groff, gv, html2ps, t1-cyrillic, texlive-base-bin
Description: GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer
Description-md5: 732bd45324c6fce1aa914b7b0167c68a
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/
Tag: devel::prettyprint, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::gnu, use::converting, use::printing,
works-with-format::postscript, works-with::text
Section: text
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/a2ps/a2ps_4.14-8_amd64.deb
Size: 641620
MD5sum: 586d2d4c8688fcaa737d9677a5204ffb
SHA256: 9aa42f0b14647a5033f371918ec7c421d8c17cb274a0f3a96ae9a1f73394ed8b