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

Last updated: April 30,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "checksec" package

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


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall checksec 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 checksec package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: checksec
Version: 2.6.0-2
Installed-Size: 94
Maintainer: Chen-Ying Kuo
Architecture: all
Depends: procps, file, openssl, gawk, binutils
Recommends: curl, wget
Description: Bash script to test executable properties
Description-md5: a97047856b15e3cdb277f4df737b523f
Homepage: https://github.com/slimm609/checksec.sh
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/checksec/checksec_2.6.0-2_all.deb
Size: 23572
MD5sum: 0afc70a631ee75175a6668e331593f5a
SHA256: d9eb05d6462d5b810389153dc63f03bd74d4f19f5e57c858d3610ad7877ddc99