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

Last updated: May 03,2024

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

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1. Install "libinput-dev" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libinput-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libinput-dev" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libinput-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: libinput-dev
Source: libinput
Version: 1.22.1-1
Installed-Size: 216
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libinput10 (= 1.22.1-1), libmtdev-dev (>= 1.1.0), libudev-dev, libevdev-dev (>= 1.10.0), libwacom-dev (>= 0.20)
Description: input device management and event handling library - development files
Description-md5: 0da11dbc46194145e73a7af186713bda
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libi/libinput/libinput-dev_1.22.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 32720
MD5sum: b03e5478db7bc740650a04340cc5a445
SHA256: 9617b2abe31820888428088fd19f8360a52d2053b50eb6114d2dae0b838d1d79