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

Last updated: November 22,2024

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

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1. Install "earlyoom" package

Learn how to install earlyoom on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall earlyoom on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                earlyoom
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the earlyoom package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: earlyoom
Source: earlyoom (1.7-1)
Version: 1.7-1+b1
Installed-Size: 82
Maintainer: Yangfl
Architecture: amd64
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Description: Early OOM Daemon
Description-md5: af2528669e45f838534ad3de7a75b3d4
Homepage: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/earlyoom/earlyoom_1.7-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 29000
MD5sum: 3b6b69f9280b2f6c5eb49c4fe0b3968c
SHA256: e79ba8c738ba1bdc89cff51d40956439231299f71a17604e7e47f91a0eb475ce