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

Last updated: May 07,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libwebsockets-dev 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 "libwebsockets-dev" package

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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libwebsockets-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 libwebsockets-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libwebsockets-dev
Source: libwebsockets
Version: 4.1.6-3
Installed-Size: 1706
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libwebsockets17 (= 4.1.6-3), libwebsockets-evlib-ev (= 4.1.6-3), libwebsockets-evlib-uv (= 4.1.6-3), libwebsockets-evlib-glib (= 4.1.6-3), libev-dev, libssl-dev, libuv1-dev, zlib1g-dev, libcap-dev
Description: lightweight C websockets library - development files
Description-md5: 80b560ff7d2e76f17977506ffe8da836
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://libwebsockets.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libw/libwebsockets/libwebsockets-dev_4.1.6-3_amd64.deb
Size: 461152
MD5sum: 19f91b1e0d1c4b928d41428b08273dfe
SHA256: 575f7b74a5525775c6498d99f060c09f881a4d048a10a6f336389a0bac5398e9