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

Last updated: May 13,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "gettext" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install gettext on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall gettext 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 gettext package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: gettext
Version: 0.21-12
Installed-Size: 5825
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: gettext-base, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgomp1 (>= 6), libunistring2 (>= 1.0), libxml2 (>= 2.9.1)
Recommends: curl | wget | lynx
Suggests: autopoint, gettext-doc, libasprintf-dev, libgettextpo-dev
Breaks: autopoint (<= 0.17-11)
Description: GNU Internationalization utilities
Description-md5: 0db85b3962766eeef57d5324263a308e
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Tag: devel::i18n, devel::library, interface::commandline, role::devel-lib,
role::program, role::shared-lib, scope::utility, suite::gnu,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::converting, works-with-format::po,
works-with::text
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gettext/gettext_0.21-12_amd64.deb
Size: 1300056
MD5sum: 7d86485592359941e707aa94090cb46b
SHA256: 8c1f9d43575373ce311f51d00a13afbb4888d63aa559a93a3472f5d77513b60c