How to Install and Uninstall flex-old Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "flex-old" package

This guide let you learn how to install flex-old on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "flex-old" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall flex-old 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 flex-old package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: flex-old
Version: 2.5.4a-10.1
Installed-Size: 457
Maintainer: Tommi Vainikainen
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Recommends: gcc | c-compiler
Suggests: bison
Conflicts: flex
Description: Old version of the fast lexical analyzer generator
Description-md5: 635ae580015e71b2feeb1332050a361a
Homepage: http://flex.sourceforge.net/
Tag: devel::code-generator, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, works-with::software:source
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/flex-old/flex-old_2.5.4a-10.1_amd64.deb
Size: 188380
MD5sum: a16c5dd8568436a5e7cf18f4aef9b610
SHA256: c98cd04aff1f8617208b643ff7273de8bc7f52d69fdd93357d4cc76bf43f0b46