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

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

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1. Install "liblzma-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install liblzma-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall liblzma-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: liblzma-dev
Source: xz-utils
Version: 5.4.1-0.2
Installed-Size: 726
Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder
Architecture: amd64
Depends: liblzma5 (= 5.4.1-0.2)
Suggests: liblzma-doc
Description: XZ-format compression library - development files
Description-md5: d19d3f899b3a1d8a68ae0473ad3f9283
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://tukaani.org/xz/
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c,
interface::commandline, role::devel-lib, role::program, scope::utility,
use::compressing, works-with::TODO, works-with::archive
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xz-utils/liblzma-dev_5.4.1-0.2_amd64.deb
Size: 259788
MD5sum: b62171e0def0adc231e0d08be374f9fb
SHA256: 6853282a9aaad7f758972a7d52a1bcd9eeb26e224bf9a3d1efb8b3979d42cd4a