How to Install and Uninstall apt-cacher-ng Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 04,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "apt-cacher-ng" package

This tutorial shows how to install apt-cacher-ng on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "apt-cacher-ng" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall apt-cacher-ng 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 apt-cacher-ng package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: apt-cacher-ng
Source: apt-cacher-ng (3.7.4-1)
Version: 3.7.4-1+b2
Installed-Size: 1816
Maintainer: Eduard Bloch
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc-ares2 (>= 1.16.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libevent-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 12), libsystemd0 (>= 210), libwrap0 (>= 7.6-4~), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Suggests: doc-base, avahi-daemon
Conflicts: logrotate (<< 3.8.0)
Description: caching proxy server for software repositories
Description-md5: b88e5e2d04c76e8d4500fb60880c7d76
Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/
Tag: admin::package-management, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon,
network::server, network::service, protocol::http, role::program,
suite::debian, use::downloading, use::proxying,
works-with::software:package, works-with::software:source
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/apt-cacher-ng/apt-cacher-ng_3.7.4-1+b2_amd64.deb
Size: 681516
MD5sum: ffdb34a89c0b7009ac6aff87d4aeb3ad
SHA256: 102b191588182197204a686465447bc591bc819624c65f152c3e4c9a0c4e851f