How to Install and Uninstall libnss-docker Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libnss-docker 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 "libnss-docker" package

This tutorial shows how to install libnss-docker on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libnss-docker" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libnss-docker 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 libnss-docker package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libnss-docker
Version: 0.02-1.1
Installed-Size: 41
Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Suggests: docker.io
Description: nss module for finding Docker containers
Description-md5: bacbf9721e027c8c0aed0e92689357ba
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/dex4er/nss-docker
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libn/libnss-docker/libnss-docker_0.02-1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 8340
MD5sum: 743f7a6f5fbc7a5b14d098e092ae6f62
SHA256: 6aa40b12a4d4b5368db3ce63ddb5f2078c4216acf157417b486721f1bb790d34