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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "haveged" package

This tutorial shows how to install haveged on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Learn how to uninstall haveged on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: haveged
Source: haveged (1.9.14-1)
Version: 1.9.14-1+b1
Installed-Size: 90
Maintainer: Jérémy Bobbio
Architecture: amd64
Depends: lsb-base (>= 3.2-14), libc6 (>= 2.34), libhavege2 (>= 1.9.13)
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Suggests: apparmor
Description: Linux entropy source using the HAVEGE algorithm
Description-md5: e29e090ec35dfe759c8580ce04904d0c
Homepage: https://issihosts.com/haveged/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, role::program, scope::utility,
security::cryptography
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/h/haveged/haveged_1.9.14-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 37396
MD5sum: ac6cd6307517497892afe2b820686ac0
SHA256: b0c34ed37adea666d517da4407ecf5a52c549b5c800051ded937023a6e3405e1