How to Install and Uninstall isc-dhcp-client Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "isc-dhcp-client" package

Please follow the instructions below to install isc-dhcp-client on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "isc-dhcp-client" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall isc-dhcp-client 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 isc-dhcp-client package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: isc-dhcp-client
Source: isc-dhcp
Version: 4.4.3-P1-2
Installed-Size: 2857
Maintainer: Debian ISC DHCP Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: dhcp-client
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.36), debianutils (>= 2.8.2), iproute2
Recommends: isc-dhcp-common
Suggests: resolvconf, avahi-autoipd, isc-dhcp-client-ddns
Description: DHCP client for automatically obtaining an IP address
Description-md5: f420f2f086bd0ea993e6112c376e0d1f
Homepage: http://www.isc.org
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::client,
network::configuration, protocol::dhcp, protocol::ip, role::program,
use::configuring
Section: net
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/i/isc-dhcp/isc-dhcp-client_4.4.3-P1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1095928
MD5sum: a2dadf5ff95c5b1966786da410e4d812
SHA256: 243dd7288443d3edec79558925b839f038637964cecb7202a9a0f95fadbeb6e3