How to Install and Uninstall ncbi-entrez-direct Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 12,2024

You can also install and uninstall the ncbi-entrez-direct 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 "ncbi-entrez-direct" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install ncbi-entrez-direct on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "ncbi-entrez-direct" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall ncbi-entrez-direct on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the ncbi-entrez-direct package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: ncbi-entrez-direct
Source: ncbi-entrez-direct (19.0.20230216+dfsg-2)
Version: 19.0.20230216+dfsg-2+b1
Installed-Size: 26284
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: curl | wget, libc6 (>= 2.34)
Recommends: python3:any
Suggests: curl, libxml-simple-perl, libxml2-utils, perl:any
Description: NCBI Entrez utilities on the command line
Description-md5: 10c6a6866d4021f4e8969018b2d1adbc
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK179288
Built-Using: golang-1.19 (= 1.19.8-2)
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/ncbi-entrez-direct/ncbi-entrez-direct_19.0.20230216+dfsg-2+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 6040884
MD5sum: 0fd01b1bb6e78ee20d4a763338d9dc6a
SHA256: e0ff9730d71b396d6e29027acdf67d2eb60989390ad5a7e07e46a47401710ffb