How to Install and Uninstall bird2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the bird2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "bird2" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install bird2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                bird2
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "bird2" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall bird2 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 bird2 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: bird2
Version: 2.0.12-7
Installed-Size: 1553
Maintainer: Jakub Ružička
Architecture: amd64
Depends: adduser, ucf, libc6 (>= 2.34), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libssh-gcrypt-4 (>= 0.8.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.56~)
Suggests: bird2-doc
Conflicts: bird
Description: Internet Routing Daemon
Description-md5: 874644189b6bd30d36505beb812c9640
Homepage: https://bird.network.cz/
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/bird2/bird2_2.0.12-7_amd64.deb
Size: 752668
MD5sum: 36e836a3f73f302c0e060b8e43e91b03
SHA256: 79cb27320cedf66dde085b7752c5a0f4daa89399b95029ada1b007cb45f52909