How to Install and Uninstall cruft-ng Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "cruft-ng" package

This tutorial shows how to install cruft-ng on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "cruft-ng" package

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

Package: cruft-ng
Version: 0.9.54
Installed-Size: 680
Maintainer: Alexandre Detiste
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: cruft (<< 0.9.44~), cruft-common
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libmd0 (>= 0.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9), plocate
Suggests: ncdu
Breaks: cruft (<< 0.9.44~), cruft-common
Description: programs that helps analyse volatile "cruft" files on your system
Description-md5: 1695ad4aa113915ce0ea50cbd0ab6c22
Homepage: https://github.com/a-detiste/cruft-ng/
Tag: admin::monitoring, admin::package-management, implemented-in::c++,
interface::commandline, role::program, use::searching
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cruft-ng/cruft-ng_0.9.54_amd64.deb
Size: 180416
MD5sum: a3335f6544d48c33b31d4ae157b59c8d
SHA256: fdff8c7ef2781301a497844f22155d848bfe6286a266c0b40ceab5d22cee2c45