How to Install and Uninstall libc6-x32 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: November 05,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libc6-x32 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libc6-x32" package

Please follow the steps below to install libc6-x32 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libc6-x32" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libc6-x32 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libc6-x32
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libc6-x32 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libc6-x32
Source: glibc
Version: 2.36-9+deb12u4
Installed-Size: 11545
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (= 2.36-9+deb12u4)
Conflicts: libc0.1-i386, libc6-amd64, libc6-i386:x32, libc6-mips32, libc6-mips64, libc6-mipsn32, libc6-powerpc, libc6-ppc64, libc6-s390, libc6-sparc, libc6-sparc64, libc6-x32:i386
Description: GNU C Library: X32 ABI Shared libraries for AMD64
Description-md5: 010abf82e546e9de191aa54ef585d592
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-x32_2.36-9+deb12u4_amd64.deb
Size: 2583800
MD5sum: e96cbd9c696f913e41165093e9db4c92
SHA256: 548b3ad932a23a93ee483c43b6f78dffd782bfc8286c7902a79d6fa424367c74