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

Last updated: May 20,2024

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

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1. Install "libreadline-dev" package

Learn how to install libreadline-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libreadline-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall libreadline-dev 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 libreadline-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libreadline-dev
Source: readline
Version: 8.2-1.3
Installed-Size: 790
Maintainer: Matthias Klose
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libreadline6-dev
Depends: libreadline8 (= 8.2-1.3), libncurses-dev, dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Suggests: readline-doc
Conflicts: libreadline-gplv2-dev, libreadline5-dev, libreadline6-dev
Description: GNU readline and history libraries, development files
Description-md5: 3793ef1d4c2c0318abafe0980aadcd30
Multi-Arch: same
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib, role::dummy
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/readline/libreadline-dev_8.2-1.3_amd64.deb
Size: 150856
MD5sum: a41586cd4c6277d3d7f955f2a30bf857
SHA256: 23b2f03bc073dcd3ac4638675ddccbda2e8d7348bb83dd648c55dfb8077e8672