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

Last updated: May 16,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "info" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install info on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall info 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 info package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: info
Source: texinfo (6.8-6)
Version: 6.8-6+b1
Installed-Size: 845
Maintainer: Debian TeX Task Force
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: texinfo-doc-nonfree
Provides: info-browser
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libtinfo6 (>= 6), install-info
Breaks: texinfo-doc-nonfree
Description: Standalone GNU Info documentation browser
Description-md5: 98475bbce3804b8961f7886328b1baea
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode, role::program, suite::gnu,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::viewing, works-with-format::info,
works-with::text
Section: doc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/texinfo/info_6.8-6+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 318740
MD5sum: 42465804b04620c123ab44c5087d49e2
SHA256: a1debd4272bdac84f74a9cdcc9ff064e567eb8f83f6ba77b55657fee125c98ac