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

Last updated: May 19,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "aptitude" package

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


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

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


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

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.8.13-5
Installed-Size: 4268
Maintainer: Aptitude Development Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: aptitude-common (= 0.8.13-5), libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 1.9.0), libboost-iostreams1.74.0 (>= 1.74.0), libc6 (>= 2.33), libcwidget4 (>= 0.5.18-1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libncursesw6 (>= 6.1+20180210), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.6.5), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libtinfo6 (>= 6.1+20180210), libxapian30 (>= 1.4.19~)
Recommends: libdpkg-perl, sensible-utils
Suggests: apt-xapian-index, aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-doc, debtags, tasksel
Description: terminal-based package manager
Description-md5: 6077c8b6794c43d6b34dfc9169fe4ee5
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Aptitude
Tag: admin::configuring, admin::package-management, implemented-in::c++,
interface::commandline, interface::text-mode, role::program,
scope::application, suite::debian, uitoolkit::ncurses, use::browsing,
use::configuring, use::downloading, use::searching,
works-with::software:package
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.8.13-5_amd64.deb
Size: 1369052
MD5sum: 82d9eb5463765ad51919d59a614321c3
SHA256: 2e60dc4f739128ccd75a8a49a344a0e22f3c71592ca0225c91d466a712224b10