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

Last updated: February 02,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "flac" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install flac on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall flac on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: flac
Version: 1.4.2+ds-2
Installed-Size: 437
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libflac12 (>= 1.4.1)
Description: Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
Description-md5: f1560839832c89e0262853df6c9f7e62
Homepage: https://xiph.org/flac/
Tag: interface::commandline, role::program, scope::utility,
sound::compression, use::converting, works-with::audio
Section: sound
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/flac/flac_1.4.2+ds-2_amd64.deb
Size: 166212
MD5sum: 0d41b57d2c5d5749b20ca749a48b2645
SHA256: ac4925d4000028fc2a318a2ba68fcc18b035f3249957c7519919f375b07b09ea