How to Install and Uninstall libpq5 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 23,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libpq5 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libpq5" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libpq5 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libpq5" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libpq5 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 libpq5 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libpq5
Source: postgresql-15
Version: 15.6-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 850
Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libldap-2.5-0 (>= 2.5.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Description: PostgreSQL C client library
Description-md5: 4109d08c168c8058d09c0cc8bf8b18b1
Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org/
Multi-Arch: same
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/updates/main/p/postgresql-15/libpq5_15.6-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 187788
SHA256: 1b0b82bdf54dab8ee7ae10e4d560273e5f439090f19adead0c3a8b52bd7c09f4

Package: libpq5
Source: postgresql-15
Version: 15.5-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 850
Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libldap-2.5-0 (>= 2.5.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Description: PostgreSQL C client library
Description-md5: 4109d08c168c8058d09c0cc8bf8b18b1
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/postgresql-15/libpq5_15.5-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 187140
MD5sum: 6579a450974ed11308da0e88189484fc
SHA256: 778a37a094d2ea0d744c293522083aead4973bb361e0543c225b53b2ae15c674