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

Last updated: February 02,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "librdkafka-dev" package

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


    
        
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2. Uninstall "librdkafka-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall librdkafka-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: librdkafka-dev
Source: librdkafka
Version: 2.0.2-1
Installed-Size: 4570
Maintainer: Faidon Liambotis
Architecture: amd64
Depends: librdkafka++1 (= 2.0.2-1), librdkafka1 (= 2.0.2-1)
Description: library implementing the Apache Kafka protocol (development headers)
Description-md5: 2f47faef9806ae0190670ff71b24dbc4
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/confluentinc/librdkafka
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libr/librdkafka/librdkafka-dev_2.0.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 853068
MD5sum: e9c439e9f80420e0f5d8c3dc2c4d4c28
SHA256: c1a191215ce1603bb9392de539aebfd2b627ab53b3677b0f6cc6456cfcc6fa02