How to Install and Uninstall libpwquality-tools Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 20,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libpwquality-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install libpwquality-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libpwquality-tools" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libpwquality-tools 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 libpwquality-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libpwquality-tools
Source: libpwquality (1.4.5-1)
Version: 1.4.5-1+b1
Installed-Size: 49
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libpwquality1 (>= 1.1.0)
Recommends: cracklib-runtime
Description: tools for password quality checking and generation
Description-md5: 748331af36bc84978f52ee4344e90e81
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libp/libpwquality/libpwquality-tools_1.4.5-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 11144
MD5sum: b2a44f47445ff02392d5a289ddb32399
SHA256: f9604ed5597def395f52a5ef54b4e84885fa6978a8d098eb8bb95ef2518fb7b7