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

Last updated: May 15,2024

You can also install and uninstall the elan 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 "elan" package

This guide let you learn how to install elan on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall elan 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 elan package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: elan
Version: 1.4.2-5
Installed-Size: 4282
Maintainer: Christopher Hoskin
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 4.2), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), sensible-utils
Description: tool for managing installations of the Lean theorem prover
Description-md5: 73025e9110aebf4866656e7478efe271
Homepage: https://github.com/leanprover/elan
Section: math
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/elan/elan_1.4.2-5_amd64.deb
Size: 1177168
MD5sum: bbda9cb665b6ec90aa50c76955d3d79a
SHA256: 77fc1ec45b7788d6af0b7c4baed2659468d8a0c004a5cbac575cf6ba376a5a0a