How to Install and Uninstall libcairo2-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 14,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libcairo2-dev on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libcairo2-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libcairo2-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libcairo2-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libcairo2-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libcairo2-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libcairo2-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libcairo2-dev
Source: cairo
Version: 1.16.0-7
Installed-Size: 2804
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libcairo-dev
Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (= 1.16.0-7), libcairo-script-interpreter2 (= 1.16.0-7), libcairo2 (= 1.16.0-7), libfontconfig-dev (>= 2.2.95), libfreetype-dev (>= 2.1.10), libglib2.0-dev, libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.22.0), libpng-dev, libsm-dev, libx11-dev, libxcb-render0-dev (>= 1.6), libxcb-shm0-dev, libxcb1-dev (>= 1.6), libxext-dev, libxrender-dev (>= 0.6)
Suggests: libcairo2-doc
Description: Development files for the Cairo 2D graphics library
Description-md5: 07fe86d11452aa2efc887db335b46f58
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://cairographics.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, uitoolkit::gtk
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cairo/libcairo2-dev_1.16.0-7_amd64.deb
Size: 726980
MD5sum: ab848b67c66380add6f76c62d0201c3b
SHA256: fd952dcfec073330c5c82c9ac63a4035ead4c78187cb67ad6fd818d4a2f8b145