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

Last updated: March 04,2025

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

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1. Install "libvecgeom-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libvecgeom-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 "libvecgeom-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libvecgeom-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 libvecgeom-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libvecgeom-dev
Source: vecgeom
Version: 1.2.1+dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 2496
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libvecgeom1.2 (= 1.2.1+dfsg-1), veccore-dev, vc-dev, libembree-dev
Suggests: vecgeom-dev (= 1.2.1+dfsg-1)
Breaks: vecgeom-dev (<< 1.1.19+dfsg-1)
Description: geometry library for particle-detector simulation - headers
Description-md5: 19a72a03227bdc14ba33687395eaa4d1
Homepage: https://gitlab.cern.ch/VecGeom/VecGeom
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/v/vecgeom/libvecgeom-dev_1.2.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 310900
MD5sum: eaca09dea03fd3946a8d3891801b9be4
SHA256: 1dc163600851c34f944a53e2a94080df6c14afc51351e795409cc0ced8b96954