How to Install and Uninstall libtesseract5 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 13,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libtesseract5 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "libtesseract5" package

Please follow the steps below to install libtesseract5 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libtesseract5" package

Learn how to uninstall libtesseract5 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 libtesseract5 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libtesseract5
Source: tesseract
Version: 5.3.0-2
Installed-Size: 3514
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.0.4), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgomp1 (>= 4.9), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), libstdc++6 (>= 11)
Breaks: ocropus (<< 0.4.0~), tesseract-ocr (<< 3.01~)
Description: Tesseract OCR library
Description-md5: 1c67aa6c8fa00c9ab066f4cbab95b7c2
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract/libtesseract5_5.3.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1278876
MD5sum: 4cb9b90ecb23ee54d8030b72b4149dbc
SHA256: 19b1719f30235eaf209866b219d4dbdd4dddd813758a8d5b9715c78c40702ff1