How to Install and Uninstall libcryptsetup12 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libcryptsetup12 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libcryptsetup12" package

This guide let you learn how to install libcryptsetup12 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libcryptsetup12" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libcryptsetup12 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 libcryptsetup12 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libcryptsetup12
Source: cryptsetup
Version: 2:2.6.1-4~deb12u2
Installed-Size: 563
Maintainer: Debian Cryptsetup Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libargon2-1 (>= 0~20171227), libblkid1 (>= 2.24.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libjson-c5 (>= 0.15), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16)
Description: disk encryption support - shared library
Description-md5: 4d51c661b0adee027561376db6e58853
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cryptsetup/libcryptsetup12_2.6.1-4~deb12u2_amd64.deb
Size: 223344
MD5sum: 14d2f4bface218daada4000e1328e750
SHA256: b9a607c219be5ef04bc0fcfaec3752d9a1ba07df8d3bb2aed9bf348f90d1b6cc