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

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

Please follow the guidelines below to install nettle-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall nettle-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 nettle-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: nettle-dev
Source: nettle
Version: 3.8.1-2
Installed-Size: 2936
Maintainer: Magnus Holmgren
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libnettle-dev
Depends: libnettle8 (= 3.8.1-2), libhogweed6 (= 3.8.1-2), libgmp-dev
Conflicts: libnettle-dev
Description: low level cryptographic library (development files)
Description-md5: 71d39c111aac4d3815d7606eac8b4fe3
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/
Tag: devel::doc, devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c,
role::devel-lib, role::documentation, security::cryptography
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/nettle/nettle-dev_3.8.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1239012
MD5sum: b87e613344ff745d91f1512dbc18aa38
SHA256: aa8e4331a974f00db23a14389c67dfe66bc359b09b6c2dbfe555230942feb6be