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

Last updated: February 01,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libbpf-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 "libbpf-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libbpf-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 "libbpf-dev" package

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

Package: libbpf-dev
Source: libbpf (1.1.0-1)
Version: 1:1.1.0-1
Installed-Size: 951
Maintainer: Sudip Mukherjee
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbpf1 (= 1:1.1.0-1), libelf-dev, zlib1g-dev
Description: eBPF helper library (development files)
Description-md5: ebc34420621f1d340dda3a2cc4306fbc
Multi-Arch: same
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libb/libbpf/libbpf-dev_1.1.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 225136
MD5sum: c80a38bcbafe130b15f656cde46a5eb7
SHA256: 7329961d681052857cdf40dbf8e3e86eacb46029777f724d7024bf87411b70d1