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

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

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1. Install "libfontconfig-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libfontconfig-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 "libfontconfig-dev" package

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

Package: libfontconfig-dev
Source: fontconfig
Version: 2.14.1-4
Installed-Size: 833
Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libfontconfig1-dev (<< 2.13.1-3)
Provides: libfontconfig1-dev (= 2.14.1-4)
Depends: libfontconfig1 (= 2.14.1-4), libexpat1-dev, libfreetype-dev (>= 2.8.1), uuid-dev, pkg-config
Description: generic font configuration library - development
Description-md5: 050db170deaa19847a8222ec11c75166
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fontconfig/libfontconfig-dev_2.14.1-4_amd64.deb
Size: 408964
MD5sum: b87e8b268dac3722ee81a946d7145a7e
SHA256: 74f4bbde5795e4fb4c453308bd0eb8ef45d7ade3cf11b3c18394f9e2c15d28df