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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

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1. Install "primesieve" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install primesieve on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall primesieve 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 primesieve package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: primesieve
Version: 11.0+ds-2
Installed-Size: 23
Maintainer: Debian Math Team
Architecture: all
Depends: primesieve-bin
Description: fast prime number generator C/C++ library
Description-md5: 4373544486f792558b8c69edec28f825
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve
Section: math
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/primesieve/primesieve_11.0+ds-2_all.deb
Size: 17108
MD5sum: b5d5820cae807d63420fa5e5190a181f
SHA256: b209866d6f4a55e9a86e457af3654d00c8398460c1dd1499a647a8e181a699a2