How to Install and Uninstall libgdbm6 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libgdbm6 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "libgdbm6" package

This tutorial shows how to install libgdbm6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libgdbm6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libgdbm6" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libgdbm6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libgdbm6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libgdbm6 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libgdbm6
Source: gdbm
Version: 1.23-3
Installed-Size: 129
Maintainer: Nicolas Mora
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Suggests: gdbm-l10n (= 1.23-3)
Description: GNU dbm database routines (runtime version)
Description-md5: 24b8412dee6fcbfee343c973abac1e5a
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://gnu.org/software/gdbm
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gdbm/libgdbm6_1.23-3_amd64.deb
Size: 72248
MD5sum: 74449c52293efdb6d013d29856047e75
SHA256: 95fe4a1336532450e67bd067892f46eaa484139919ea8d067a9ffcbf5a4bf883