How to Install and Uninstall libcec6 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libcec6 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libcec6" package

This guide let you learn how to install libcec6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libcec6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libcec6" package

Learn how to uninstall libcec6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libcec6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libcec6 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libcec6
Source: libcec
Version: 6.0.2-5
Installed-Size: 760
Maintainer: Barak A. Pearlmutter
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libp8-platform2 (>= 1.0.10), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.99.2)
Description: USB CEC Adaptor communication Library (shared library)
Description-md5: 8fa24da000d1436d85e6a210d9640157
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://libcec.pulse-eight.com/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libc/libcec/libcec6_6.0.2-5_amd64.deb
Size: 207824
MD5sum: 6cc514b0791856821b8104f0869fc6b2
SHA256: fa47fb278b7f8ce30a5a0dc9eb1275151a5c194c00789b093904844ae7c87714