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

Last updated: September 20,2024

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

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1. Install "libfaiss-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libfaiss-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 "libfaiss-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libfaiss-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 libfaiss-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libfaiss-dev
Source: faiss (1.7.3-2)
Version: 1.7.3-2+b1
Installed-Size: 7943
Maintainer: Debian Deep Learning Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libblas-dev | libblas.so, liblapack-dev | liblapack.so
Description: efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors
Description-md5: 97a446d4f7c6eb17e90eec293f6aba51
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/facebookresearch/faiss
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/faiss/libfaiss-dev_1.7.3-2+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 1044092
MD5sum: 70fc79ffb4c4604f046042050fe4693d
SHA256: d55fcf187bf3f264c5e7764bf256e604fcb13d13e1b836bf0b1d7ac6711edac6