How to Install and Uninstall original-awk Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 01,2024

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

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1. Install "original-awk" package

Learn how to install original-awk on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                original-awk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "original-awk" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall original-awk on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                original-awk
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the original-awk package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: original-awk
Version: 2022-09-12-1
Installed-Size: 186
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2022-09-12-1_amd64.deb
Size: 86548
MD5sum: f5a128040710433c276d866038703051
SHA256: f1835f1e5aca2f69e0b997b285b33b45aaa1abf4071edfd7481149076ca80a63