How to Install and Uninstall libpcre2-8-0 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libpcre2-8-0 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 "libpcre2-8-0" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libpcre2-8-0 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libpcre2-8-0
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libpcre2-8-0" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libpcre2-8-0 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 libpcre2-8-0 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libpcre2-8-0
Source: pcre2
Version: 10.42-1
Installed-Size: 685
Maintainer: Matthew Vernon
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: New Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library- 8 bit runtime files
Description-md5: c7a3d45ed09bfb032aada6998b70c4e1
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://pcre.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/pcre2/libpcre2-8-0_10.42-1_amd64.deb
Size: 260776
MD5sum: 2164cb282e379d053789306c07ce9828
SHA256: 030db54f4d76cdfe2bf0e8eb5f9efea0233ab3c7aa942d672c7b63b52dbaf935