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

Last updated: May 13,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "gh" package

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


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

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

Package: gh
Version: 2.23.0+dfsg1-1
Installed-Size: 39404
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Conflicts: gitsome (<< 0.8.0+ds-7.1)
Description: GitHub CLI, GitHub’s official command line tool
Description-md5: 3d12a99dda569158626806f640f0120d
Homepage: https://cli.github.com/
Static-Built-Using: go-md2man-v2 (= 2.0.2+ds1-1), gojq (= 0.12.11-1), golang-1.19 (= 1.19.6-2), golang-blackfriday-v2 (= 2.1.0-1), golang-github-alecaivazis-survey (= 2.3.6+ds1-1), golang-github-alecthomas-chroma (= 0.10.0-3), golang-github-aymanbagabas-go-osc52 (= 1.2.1-1), golang-github-aymerick-douceur (= 0.2.0-3), golang-github-briandowns-spinner (= 1.18.1+ds1-1), golang-github-cenkalti-backoff (= 4.1.3-1), golang-github-charmbracelet-glamour (= 0.5.0-2), golang-github-charmbracelet-lipgloss (= 0.5.0-1), golang-github-cli-browser (= 1.1.0-2), golang-github-cli-go-gh (= 1.0.0-1), golang-github-cli-oauth (= 1.0.1-1), golang-github-cli-safeexec (= 1.0.1-1), golang-github-cli-shurcool-graphql (= 0.0.2-1), golang-github-davecgh-go-spew (= 1.1.1-3), golang-github-dlclark-regexp2 (= 1.4.0+ds1-1), golang-github-fatih-color (= 1.7.0-1), golang-github-gabriel-vasile-mimetype (= 1.4.1+dfsg1-2), golang-github-gdamore-encoding (= 1.0.0-3), golang-github-gdamore-tcell.v2 (= 2.5.4-1), golang-github-google-shlex (= 0.0~git20191202.e7afc7f-1), golang-github-gorilla-css (= 1.0.0-3), golang-github-gorilla-websocket (= 1.5.0-2), golang-github-hashicorp-errwrap (= 1.1.0-1), golang-github-hashicorp-go-multierror (= 1.1.1-2), golang-github-hashicorp-go-version (= 1.3.0-1), golang-github-itchyny-timefmt-go (= 0.1.3-2), golang-github-joho-godotenv (= 1.5.1-1), golang-github-kballard-go-shellquote (= 0.0~git20180428.95032a8-2), golang-github-lucasb-eyer-go-colorful (= 1.2.0-1), golang-github-makenowjust-heredoc (= 1.0.0-1), golang-github-mattn-go-colorable (= 0.1.13-1), golang-github-mattn-go-isatty (= 0.0.17-1), golang-github-mattn-go-runewidth (= 0.0.14-1), golang-github-mgutz-ansi (= 0.0~git20200706.d51e80e-1), golang-github-microcosm-cc-bluemonday (= 1.0.20-1), golang-github-muesli-reflow (= 0.3.0-2), golang-github-muesli-termenv (= 0.13.0-2), golang-github-muhammadmuzzammil1998-jsonc (= 0.0~git20201229.615b091-2), golang-github-olekukonko-tablewriter (= 0.0.5-2), golang-github-opentracing-opentracing-go (= 1.2.0-2), golang-github-pmezard-go-difflib (= 1.0.0-3), golang-github-rivo-tview (= 0.0~git20221029.c4a7e50-1), golang-github-rivo-uniseg (= 0.4.2-1), golang-github-shurcool-githubv4 (= 0.0~git20220520.0b4e329-1), golang-github-shurcool-graphql (= 0.0~git20220606.3cf50f8-1), golang-github-sourcegraph-jsonrpc2 (= 0.1.0-3), golang-github-spf13-cobra (= 1.6.1-1), golang-github-spf13-pflag (= 1.0.6~git20210604-d5e0c0615ace-1), golang-github-thlib-go-timezone-local (= 0.0~git20210907.ef149e4-5), golang-github-yuin-goldmark (= 1.5.3-1), golang-github-yuin-goldmark-emoji (= 1.0.1-2), golang-golang-x-net (= 1:0.7.0+dfsg-1), golang-golang-x-sync (= 0.1.0-1), golang-golang-x-sys (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-term (= 0.3.0-1), golang-golang-x-text (= 0.5.0-1), golang-google-genproto (= 0.0~git20200413.b5235f6-3), golang-google-protobuf (= 1.28.1-3), golang-gopkg-yaml.v3 (= 3.0.1-3), golang-objx (= 0.5.0-1), golang-testify (= 1.8.1-1)
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gh/gh_2.23.0+dfsg1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 7261340
MD5sum: ca6543a5399ace0455e31718f1c8a372
SHA256: 2d5f52d15924b03f2df906bf587e578244d5db2d789d980cd8151895d1c9795b