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

Last updated: May 20,2024

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

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1. Install "libzbar-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libzbar-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libzbar-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libzbar-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libzbar-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 libzbar-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libzbar-dev
Source: zbar
Version: 0.23.92-7+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 610
Maintainer: Boyuan Yang
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libmagick++-dev, libx11-dev, libzbar0 (= 0.23.92-7+deb12u1), gir1.2-zbar-1.0 (= 0.23.92-7+deb12u1)
Description: QR code / bar code scanner and decoder (development)
Description-md5: cbc904d6567674a270736247dc1af038
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/mchehab/zbar
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zbar/libzbar-dev_0.23.92-7+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 171008
MD5sum: 133aa4b9aa7e91d77b89081caec7514a
SHA256: 498ca301c36cd9428dd190538675c74171a7853068e60de7e448bf6e596f1319