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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

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1. Install "libgdbm-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libgdbm-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libgdbm-dev" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall libgdbm-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 libgdbm-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libgdbm-dev
Source: gdbm
Version: 1.23-3
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Nicolas Mora
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libgdbm4 (= 1.12-1)
Provides: libgdbm-dietlibc-dev
Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libgdbm6 (= 1.23-3)
Description: GNU dbm database routines (development files)
Description-md5: 538569a1f92ab25ef8f4a46ecbbf6126
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://gnu.org/software/gdbm
Built-Using: dietlibc (= 0.34~cvs20160606-14)
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c, role::devel-lib,
suite::gnu, works-with::db
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gdbm/libgdbm-dev_1.23-3_amd64.deb
Size: 164012
MD5sum: 885178323abee8968c6322d0f4603183
SHA256: bcab5bb9d29a46ca6a456b4e20ebae010fb1ce88347c5e859fc853e845b54f01