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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "libarchive-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libarchive-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 "libarchive-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libarchive-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 libarchive-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libarchive-dev
Source: libarchive
Version: 3.6.2-1
Installed-Size: 2143
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.6.2-1)
Description: Multi-format archive and compression library (development files)
Description-md5: 68ad6870c167e8363f56ccdc0da60667
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.libarchive.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_3.6.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 559384
MD5sum: d8f71458596697d0f019d5ae50343385
SHA256: 0382b6a54556abe4114122e50879a5af45daf639b3987d1ff4d55846a07a652e