How to Install and Uninstall libc6 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 23,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libc6 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 "libc6" package

Please follow the steps below to install libc6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libc6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libc6" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libc6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libc6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libc6 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libc6
Source: glibc
Version: 2.36-9+deb12u4
Installed-Size: 12986
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libc6-amd64
Depends: libgcc-s1
Recommends: libidn2-0 (>= 2.0.5~)
Suggests: glibc-doc, debconf | debconf-2.0, libc-l10n, locales, libnss-nis, libnss-nisplus
Breaks: aide (<< 0.17.3-4+b3), busybox (<< 1.30.1-6), chrony (<< 4.2-3~), fakechroot (<< 2.19-3.5), firefox (<< 91~), firefox-esr (<< 91~), gnumach-image-1.8-486 (<< 2:1.8+git20210923~), gnumach-image-1.8-486-dbg (<< 2:1.8+git20210923~), gnumach-image-1.8-xen-486 (<< 2:1.8+git20210923~), gnumach-image-1.8-xen-486-dbg (<< 2:1.8+git20210923~), hurd (<< 1:0.9.git20220301-2), ioquake3 (<< 1.36+u20200211.f2c61c1~dfsg-2~), iraf-fitsutil (<< 2018.07.06-4), libgegl-0.4-0 (<< 0.4.18), libtirpc1 (<< 0.2.3), locales (<< 2.36), locales-all (<< 2.36), macs (<< 2.2.7.1-3~), nocache (<< 1.1-1~), nscd (<< 2.36), openarena (<< 0.8.8+dfsg-4~), openssh-server (<< 1:8.1p1-5), python3-iptables (<< 1.0.0-2), r-cran-later (<< 0.7.5+dfsg-2), tinydns (<< 1:1.05-14), valgrind (<< 1:3.19.0-1~), wcc (<< 0.0.2+dfsg-3)
Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Description-md5: fc3001b0b90a1c8e6690b283a619d57f
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.36-9+deb12u4_amd64.deb
Size: 2747704
MD5sum: 1318537cad67afe5dcdcc80e91839ba9
SHA256: 0a84833f2f0e6b41e97d8e89917252af83630603e878b8f1202fd9f4ff96cd9f