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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

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1. Install "libconfig-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libconfig-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libconfig-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 libconfig-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libconfig-dev
Source: libconfig
Version: 1.5-0.4
Installed-Size: 142
Maintainer: Jonathan McCrohan
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libconfig8-dev (<< 1.4.8)
Depends: libconfig9 (= 1.5-0.4), pkg-config
Recommends: libconfig-doc
Breaks: libconfig8-dev (<< 1.4.8)
Description: parsing/manipulation of structured config files (development)
Description-md5: 21ea54675951d05055b8aadda5a21743
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libc/libconfig/libconfig-dev_1.5-0.4_amd64.deb
Size: 60828
MD5sum: 9a998428c65e57e65f86b63fd75b42b0
SHA256: 5db76d722e26626c9082f978f6e388e987f19d98dc77487ffdd9e9001376ef6b