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

Last updated: May 13,2024

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

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1. Install "libdevmapper-dev" package

Learn how to install libdevmapper-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libdevmapper-dev" package

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

Package: libdevmapper-dev
Source: lvm2 (2.03.16-2)
Version: 2:1.02.185-2
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Debian LVM Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libdevmapper1.02.1 (= 2:1.02.185-2), libdevmapper-event1.02.1 (= 2:1.02.185-2), libudev-dev, libselinux1-dev
Description: Linux Kernel Device Mapper header files
Description-md5: 5cd5521f2f57bf6df22387046029bce5
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://sourceware.org/lvm2/
Tag: admin::kernel, devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c,
role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lvm2/libdevmapper-dev_1.02.185-2_amd64.deb
Size: 42032
MD5sum: 09d632e6ed6bad0834a1e27ca73531d5
SHA256: c857c05f6f314c281f6289daae9b969a1f1f60c654bf2785276a24df69decc01