How to Install and Uninstall avahi-daemon Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "avahi-daemon" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install avahi-daemon on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "avahi-daemon" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall avahi-daemon on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the avahi-daemon package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: avahi-daemon
Source: avahi
Version: 0.8-10
Installed-Size: 267
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavahi-common3 (= 0.8-10), libavahi-core7 (= 0.8-10), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libdaemon0 (>= 0.14), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), adduser, default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus
Recommends: libnss-mdns
Suggests: avahi-autoipd
Description: Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon
Description-md5: 13d651a25febc553220e03e75c6f4c7b
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://avahi.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, network::configuration,
network::scanner, network::server, protocol::dns, protocol::zeroconf,
role::program, scope::utility, use::scanning
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/avahi/avahi-daemon_0.8-10_amd64.deb
Size: 82664
MD5sum: e0b5324a5424f375333e46625b7dc4c9
SHA256: 3d310dae76ae550a132b86f89cc0712a2b89bcefd4fa60f83a58f77b5ddf2fbd