How to Install and Uninstall device-tree-compiler Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 04,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "device-tree-compiler" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                device-tree-compiler
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "device-tree-compiler" package

Learn how to uninstall device-tree-compiler 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 device-tree-compiler package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: device-tree-compiler
Source: device-tree-compiler (1.6.1-4)
Version: 1.6.1-4+b1
Installed-Size: 455
Maintainer: Héctor Orón Martínez
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libfdt1 (>= 1.6.1), libyaml-0-2
Description: Device Tree Compiler for Flat Device Trees
Description-md5: c14bd2aee94155eab7033dce0d089d26
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/dtc/dtc.git
Tag: admin::boot, implemented-in::c, role::program
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/device-tree-compiler/device-tree-compiler_1.6.1-4+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 227492
MD5sum: 17af84b476114bd0ea0de781b238fa80
SHA256: f56fbb1e1da6545619dd2a17b7a85b2c4c674bd276d1b844e01a8b9901dd349d