How to Install and Uninstall boinc-client Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 16,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "boinc-client" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install boinc-client on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "boinc-client" package

Learn how to uninstall boinc-client 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 boinc-client package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: boinc-client
Source: boinc
Version: 7.20.5+dfsg-1.1
Installed-Size: 1441
Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, python3:any, libboinc7 (= 7.20.5+dfsg-1.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.3.1), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libx11-6, libxss1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), adduser, ca-certificates, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Suggests: boinc-manager, boinc-client-opencl, boinc-client-nvidia-cuda, x11-xserver-utils
Description: core client for the BOINC distributed computing infrastructure
Description-md5: 9bd4f63a5f0f805b9edce1e36fefff24
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Tag: field::astronomy, field::biology, field::chemistry, field::mathematics,
field::physics, field::statistics, implemented-in::c++,
interface::commandline, network::client, protocol::http, role::program,
use::TODO
Section: net
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/boinc/boinc-client_7.20.5+dfsg-1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 477724
MD5sum: 89d729e7774e03bdabeb3c8c65be178c
SHA256: 2b0778a472a88efe575372216d010fd163fbf5548fa2880d2b0b5e902080096b