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

Last updated: May 18,2024

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

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1. Install "ancient" package

This tutorial shows how to install ancient on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall ancient 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 ancient package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: ancient
Version: 2.0.0-2
Installed-Size: 53
Maintainer: Gürkan Myczko
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libancient2 (= 2.0.0-2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Description: decompression routines for ancient formats
Description-md5: f3d0e341d7719136d3c04d44f91ab80c
Homepage: https://github.com/temisu/ancient
Tag: implemented-in::c++, role::program, use::compressing,
works-with::archive
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/ancient/ancient_2.0.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 17520
MD5sum: 3db3823299adbc9f2a54a3f9d3254a44
SHA256: 98b9cbf4cc324a379d5cee63e8342c2b4914ed0d26523ed4942513c6cdc17476