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

Last updated: May 11,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "alpine" package

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


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall alpine 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 alpine package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: alpine
Version: 2.26+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 8848
Maintainer: Asheesh Laroia
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: pine
Depends: mlock, libc6 (>= 2.33), libcrypt1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libldap-2.5-0 (>= 2.5.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Recommends: alpine-doc, sensible-utils
Suggests: aspell, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Conflicts: pine
Description: Text-based email client, friendly for novices but powerful
Description-md5: 3ddd074b130edc15ad4419408e6d3266
Homepage: http://alpine.x10host.com/alpine/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode, mail::user-agent,
network::client, protocol::imap, protocol::pop3, protocol::smtp,
protocol::ssl, role::program, uitoolkit::ncurses, works-with::mail
Section: mail
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/alpine/alpine_2.26+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 2085396
MD5sum: abbfaa56908c454cd7cb383f1b5aa84e
SHA256: 6bb005004bcf6f5a22561f061c3e860230d5af36a65271d9e116ca9972bde588