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

Last updated: January 10,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "gawk" package

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


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

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


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

Package: gawk
Version: 1:5.2.1-2
Installed-Size: 2906
Maintainer: Adrian Bunk
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgmp10 (>= 2:6.2.1+dfsg1), libmpfr6 (>= 3.1.3), libreadline8 (>= 6.0), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9)
Suggests: gawk-doc
Description: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
Description-md5: 0dce81fe543994c3caea814e2777732e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnu, use::converting,
use::filtering, use::scanning, works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gawk/gawk_5.2.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 672772
MD5sum: 37a046e07c55a0c6e6ae5d0191bb5931
SHA256: 9cd63c1b35ff082092c221a23dcb167f72c4d1c3de3a42e11f16181f42ab3b55