How to Install and Uninstall libappstream-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

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

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1. Install "libappstream-dev" package

Please follow the steps below to install libappstream-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libappstream-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall libappstream-dev 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 libappstream-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libappstream-dev
Source: appstream
Version: 0.16.1-2
Installed-Size: 1278
Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Depends: gir1.2-appstream-1.0 (= 0.16.1-2), libappstream4 (= 0.16.1-2), libglib2.0-dev
Description: Library to access AppStream services (development files)
Description-md5: 6d4e2a2516a8b576f955587f60087791
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/libappstream-dev_0.16.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 101660
MD5sum: 52b200d8df14fe348abedef55f2ba29c
SHA256: 51b4db78c470344d2dd104434e57c4b30db55b332126574f7a4756c10fb1649a