How to Install and Uninstall acpica-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "acpica-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install acpica-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "acpica-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall acpica-tools 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 acpica-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: acpica-tools
Source: acpica-unix
Version: 20200925-8
Installed-Size: 2469
Maintainer: Debian QA Group
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: acpidump (<< 20100513-4), iasl (<< 20130214-0.1)
Provides: acpidump, iasl
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Breaks: acpidump (<< 20100513-4), iasl (<< 20130214-0.1)
Description: ACPICA tools for the development and debug of ACPI tables
Description-md5: 47130f63ef3687d8243fb5d20706b56e
Homepage: https://www.acpica.org
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/acpica-unix/acpica-tools_20200925-8_amd64.deb
Size: 825040
MD5sum: 47725f62e7cdd5244d23a21fab50e105
SHA256: 1f80236e9af631b2a0ed50ae9bb74613d6970b844714aba33eb3710241494fb2