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

Last updated: January 23,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "gettext-base" package

Learn how to install gettext-base 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-base" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gettext-base 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-base package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: gettext-base
Source: gettext
Version: 0.21-12
Installed-Size: 645
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: GNU Internationalization utilities for the base system
Description-md5: 6c8ed1da584066e0871910b60d931f43
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
Tag: admin::configuring, devel::i18n, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::gnu, use::converting, works-with::text
Section: utils
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/g/gettext/gettext-base_0.21-12_amd64.deb
Size: 160164
MD5sum: 7c01984a8862071da212ab302283eda6
SHA256: 5cb39c7acc7125e677ec98d0426a987daf0ce062f749f2a9421b2511f6dd5ab7