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

Last updated: May 21,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "keepalived" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install keepalived on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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

Package: keepalived
Source: keepalived (1:2.2.7-1)
Version: 1:2.2.7-1+b2
Installed-Size: 1364
Maintainer: Vincent Bernat
Architecture: amd64
Depends: iproute2, libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.26.0), libmnl0 (>= 1.0.3-4~), libnftnl11 (>= 1.1.2), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.27), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libsnmp40 (>= 5.9.3+dfsg), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libsystemd0
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: ipvsadm
Description: Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters
Description-md5: 74717abb13e7dbfe48bbecb41cae323b
Homepage: http://keepalived.org
Tag: admin::monitoring, interface::daemon, network::server, role::program,
use::monitor
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/k/keepalived/keepalived_2.2.7-1+b2_amd64.deb
Size: 569660
MD5sum: e548530ceb4d79b47afe8ba72bcb1f7f
SHA256: 171b3bcb759a6b96f97ef5a06f02d14320bcb9e918d5163414daca7534c6b2ca