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

Last updated: May 06,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libvips-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libvips-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 "libvips-dev" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall libvips-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 libvips-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libvips-dev
Source: vips
Version: 8.14.1-3+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 2365
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libvips42 (= 8.14.1-3+deb12u1), gir1.2-vips-8.0 (= 8.14.1-3+deb12u1), libjpeg-dev, libtiff-dev, zlib1g-dev, libfftw3-dev | fftw3-dev, liblcms2-dev, libpng-dev, libmagickcore-dev, libmagickwand-dev, libfreetype-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libfontconfig-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libice-dev, gettext, pkgconf, liborc-0.4-dev, libopenexr-dev, libmatio-dev, libexpat1-dev, libcfitsio-dev, libopenslide-dev, libwebp-dev, libgsf-1-dev, libcgif-dev, libpoppler-glib-dev, librsvg2-dev, libjxl-dev, libimagequant-dev, libheif-dev
Recommends: libvips-doc, libvips-tools
Suggests: nip2
Description: image processing system good for very large ones (dev)
Description-md5: fdedcdb493e10121cc5a689301c664e1
Homepage: https://libvips.github.io/libvips/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/v/vips/libvips-dev_8.14.1-3+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 269100
MD5sum: 54b65a7b8069d5dc9efcae90b16a1ced
SHA256: 73b8644de9762e13022f7dd07dab690351a6fbb6e88293c6b1bdc805bc5ba676