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

Last updated: May 20,2024

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

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1. Install "libncurses-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libncurses-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall libncurses-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: libncurses-dev
Source: ncurses
Version: 6.4-4
Installed-Size: 2319
Maintainer: Craig Small
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libncurses5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libncursesw5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libtinfo-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), ncurses-bin (<< 6.0+20151017), ncurses-dev
Provides: libncurses5-dev (= 6.4-4), libncursesw5-dev (= 6.4-4), libtinfo-dev (= 6.4-4), ncurses-dev
Depends: libtinfo6 (= 6.4-4), libncurses6 (= 6.4-4), libncursesw6 (= 6.4-4), libc6-dev | libc-dev, ncurses-bin (>= 6.0+20151017)
Suggests: ncurses-doc
Conflicts: ncurses-dev
Breaks: libncurses5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libncursesw5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libtinfo-dev (<< 6.1+20180210)
Description: developer's libraries for ncurses
Description-md5: 38da502b304ea3ed5ff1e12d072d14a8
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses-dev_6.4-4_amd64.deb
Size: 349068
MD5sum: 6a5bfa24fb70b249856021f61eb113a5
SHA256: 2ad228835756feb118bb131b32834bd23a09047e4de408cc5204cbb5dce0e4bb