How to Install and Uninstall libreadline8 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 12,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libreadline8 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libreadline8" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libreadline8 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libreadline8
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libreadline8" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libreadline8 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libreadline8
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libreadline8 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libreadline8
Source: readline
Version: 8.2-1.3
Installed-Size: 475
Maintainer: Matthias Klose
Architecture: amd64
Depends: readline-common, libc6 (>= 2.33), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Description: GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
Description-md5: 02109af5819248ca867891090079f329
Multi-Arch: same
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/readline/libreadline8_8.2-1.3_amd64.deb
Size: 165760
MD5sum: 2a103a569879b1945a5a54f0cf791fb3
SHA256: e02ebbd3701cf468dbf98d6d917fbe0325e881f07fe8b316150c8d2a64486e66