How to Install and Uninstall crossbuild-essential-i386 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 23,2025

You can also install and uninstall the crossbuild-essential-i386 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "crossbuild-essential-i386" package

Learn how to install crossbuild-essential-i386 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "crossbuild-essential-i386" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall crossbuild-essential-i386 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 crossbuild-essential-i386 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: crossbuild-essential-i386
Source: build-essential
Version: 12.9
Installed-Size: 15
Maintainer: Matthias Klose
Architecture: all
Depends: gcc-i686-linux-gnu (>= 4:10.2) | gcc:i386, g++-i686-linux-gnu (>= 4:10.2) | g++:i386, dpkg-cross
Description: Informational list of cross-build-essential packages
Description-md5: 9b2629bcd07961cfcb27934f1371078a
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/b/build-essential/crossbuild-essential-i386_12.9_all.deb
Size: 6704
MD5sum: 236a518d28f0a9c1ebc94d1c73ef9d33
SHA256: 92e690072671827e13bc9c7a4d1faa78d9c38693eb55a2c7f9550a9ee240d6be