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

Last updated: May 16,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "lintian" package

Please follow the guidance below to install lintian on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "lintian" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall lintian 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 lintian package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: lintian
Version: 2.116.3
Installed-Size: 7270
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1)
Depends: binutils, bzip2, diffstat, dpkg (>= 1.17.14), dpkg-dev, file, gettext, gpg, intltool-debian, iso-codes, libapt-pkg-perl, libarchive-zip-perl, libberkeleydb-perl, libcapture-tiny-perl, libclass-xsaccessor-perl, libclone-perl, libconfig-tiny-perl, libconst-fast-perl, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libdata-dpath-perl, libdata-validate-domain-perl, libdata-validate-uri-perl, libdevel-size-perl, libdigest-sha-perl, libdpkg-perl, libencode-perl, libemail-address-xs-perl, libfile-basedir-perl, libfile-find-rule-perl, libfont-ttf-perl, libhtml-html5-entities-perl, libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl, libio-interactive-perl, libipc-run3-perl, libjson-maybexs-perl, liblist-compare-perl, liblist-someutils-perl, liblist-utilsby-perl, libmldbm-perl, libmoo-perl, libmoox-aliases-perl, libnamespace-clean-perl, libpath-tiny-perl, libperlio-gzip-perl, libperlio-utf8-strict-perl, libproc-processtable-perl, libregexp-wildcards-perl, libsereal-decoder-perl, libsereal-encoder-perl, libsort-versions-perl, libsyntax-keyword-try-perl, libterm-readkey-perl, libtext-levenshteinxs-perl, libtext-markdown-discount-perl, libtext-xslate-perl, libtime-duration-perl, libtime-moment-perl, libtimedate-perl, libunicode-utf8-perl, liburi-perl, libwww-mechanize-perl, libwww-perl, libxml-libxml-perl, libyaml-libyaml-perl, plzip | lzip-decompressor, lzop, man-db, patchutils, perl, t1utils, unzip, xz-utils, perl:any
Suggests: binutils-multiarch, libtext-template-perl
Breaks: funny-manpages (<< 1.3-5.1), libconfig-model-dpkg-perl (<< 2.151), lintian-brush (<< 0.88), lzd (<< 1.2-3~), pkg-js-tools (<< 0.9.4), pkg-perl-tools (<< 0.53)
Description: Debian package checker
Description-md5: 71905f034cdf8bbf012b327630f1a8b8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://lintian.debian.org/
Tag: devel::debian, devel::packaging, devel::testing-qa,
implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::debian, use::checking,
works-with::software:package
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.116.3_all.deb
Size: 1129656
MD5sum: 8b4ed2897ecc00d931696b4178bca887
SHA256: 2cfe004cfac61e0008578ace81eeb60b81768cb6fd385962746c100434cbbdeb