How to Install and Uninstall libancient2 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libancient2 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libancient2" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libancient2 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libancient2" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libancient2 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 libancient2 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libancient2
Source: ancient
Version: 2.0.0-2
Installed-Size: 423
Maintainer: Gürkan Myczko
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.32), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Description: decompression routines for ancient formats
Description-md5: f3d0e341d7719136d3c04d44f91ab80c
Homepage: https://github.com/temisu/ancient
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/ancient/libancient2_2.0.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 137968
MD5sum: 47c54aa6bf62f81a0feb9d64106252ab
SHA256: 0a4c082d1e55f69ff051172ee7040dfc338ab80e41c91ed03a975199a6fc39a7