How to Install and Uninstall libwireshark16 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libwireshark16 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libwireshark16" package

This is a short guide on how to install libwireshark16 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libwireshark16" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libwireshark16 on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libwireshark16 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libwireshark16
Source: wireshark
Version: 4.0.11-1~deb12u1
Installed-Size: 110748
Maintainer: Balint Reczey
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libbcg729-0 (>= 1.0.0), libbrotli1 (>= 0.6.0), libc-ares2 (>= 1.11.0~rc1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.3), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.14), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.7+dfsg), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.7dfsg), liblua5.2-0 (>= 5.2.4), liblz4-1 (>= 1.8.0), libnghttp2-14 (>= 1.11.0), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libsbc1 (>= 2.0), libsmi2ldbl (>= 0.4.5+dfsg0), libsnappy1v5 (>= 1.1.9), libspandsp2 (>= 0.0.6~pre18), libwiretap13 (>= 3.5.0), libwsutil14 (>= 4.0.11-1~deb12u1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libwireshark-data (>= 4.0.11-1~deb12u1)
Suggests: wireshark-doc (>= 4.0.11-1~deb12u1)
Description: network packet dissection library -- shared library
Description-md5: ab8eca3dff7b66974ed95f1142899d51
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.wireshark.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wireshark/libwireshark16_4.0.11-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 17787976
MD5sum: f01dceae319958a13f55ce37e0702f8c
SHA256: 2c34e4cb4a87ab7bc485073b0e2a80e500db6e54bb7c7123fdda33ee01e5f691