How to Install and Uninstall electric-fence Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 22,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "electric-fence" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install electric-fence on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "electric-fence" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall electric-fence 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 electric-fence package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: electric-fence
Source: electric-fence (2.2.6)
Version: 2.2.6+b1
Installed-Size: 73
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: A malloc(3) debugger
Description-md5: 81225779998561422a8be51affd47171
Tag: devel::debugger, role::program, role::shared-lib,
works-with::software:running
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/e/electric-fence/electric-fence_2.2.6+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 21316
MD5sum: 2af92bd8d769dafca38516e2cc11d382
SHA256: 4119f021ab9267f2a479d03cab24211a7f2b5918328d010187ed914a25b6d122