How to Install and Uninstall kcapi-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "kcapi-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install kcapi-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "kcapi-tools" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall kcapi-tools 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 kcapi-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: kcapi-tools
Source: libkcapi
Version: 1.4.0-1
Installed-Size: 108
Maintainer: Mathieu Malaterre
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libkcapi1 (>= 1.3.1)
Description: Command-line tools for Linux Kernel Crypto API
Description-md5: 7eab4ce659860e810ca8109938df8d3f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libk/libkcapi/kcapi-tools_1.4.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 34228
MD5sum: 30f964c0d566b94333ddaf2025eba88e
SHA256: a81cf21b236b6e30d064f9437271458b4d224f571cc80c772ce3e01a4115b2fa