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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

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1. Install "libevent-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libevent-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 "libevent-dev" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall libevent-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 libevent-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libevent-dev
Source: libevent
Version: 2.1.12-stable-8
Installed-Size: 1728
Maintainer: Nicolas Mora
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libevent-2.1-7 (= 2.1.12-stable-8), libevent-core-2.1-7 (= 2.1.12-stable-8), libevent-extra-2.1-7 (= 2.1.12-stable-8), libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 (= 2.1.12-stable-8), libevent-openssl-2.1-7 (= 2.1.12-stable-8)
Description: Asynchronous event notification library (development files)
Description-md5: a0372b2adf9c0952b500f3fdbe22e52d
Homepage: https://libevent.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, role::program,
works-with::software:running
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libe/libevent/libevent-dev_2.1.12-stable-8_amd64.deb
Size: 304992
MD5sum: 69e9c0e23ff36c011bf544e562868da9
SHA256: ed7f550d6cc03f3cf7dfa80d739e13350d8a2cdb25f9dfcbf11fbe66cd1d4b89