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

Last updated: October 06,2024

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

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1. Install "parallel" package

Learn how to install parallel on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall parallel 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 parallel package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: parallel
Version: 20221122+ds-2
Installed-Size: 2894
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Depends: procps, sysstat, perl:any
Suggests: csh, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh
Description: build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel
Description-md5: 8a851a81a172dd16a4bcbeb1f8f3c4ab
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/parallel/parallel_20221122+ds-2_all.deb
Size: 1873196
MD5sum: 904fb973c23ca9d92e413a975e1ed667
SHA256: 6f515189a784f63fe28b11b262f404b0a1a74cc63dac4038bb31f248e3706dc4