How to Install and Uninstall popularity-contest Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 10,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "popularity-contest" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install popularity-contest on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "popularity-contest" package

Learn how to uninstall popularity-contest 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 popularity-contest package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.76
Installed-Size: 174
Maintainer: Popularity Contest Developers
Architecture: all
Provides: popcon
Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, dpkg (>= 1.10)
Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 1.5.34) | cdebconf (>= 0.106)
Recommends: gpg, cron | cron-daemon, default-mta | mail-transport-agent
Suggests: anacron, tor, torsocks
Description: Vote for your favourite packages automatically
Description-md5: 3407fe356e3873de5113a1159b62ae48
Homepage: https://popcon.debian.org/
Tag: implemented-in::perl, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, suite::debian, use::transmission,
works-with::software:package
Section: misc
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/popularity-contest/popularity-contest_1.76_all.deb
Size: 53836
MD5sum: eb39a6812bd5361452b3d7452f2eb130
SHA256: b19a6af29a52831c621bf00bbabb88227e7914afcdd074290a825846266731a5