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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "rlwrap" package

Please follow the instructions below to install rlwrap on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall rlwrap on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: rlwrap
Version: 0.46.1-1
Installed-Size: 330
Maintainer: Thomas Ward
Architecture: amd64
Provides: readline-editor
Depends: perl:any, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libreadline8 (>= 6.3), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Description: readline feature command line wrapper
Description-md5: 2dd4e4df63ed824e61c4e21ad05cd1eb
Homepage: https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, interface::text-mode,
role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::ncurses, works-with::text
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/rlwrap/rlwrap_0.46.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 108868
MD5sum: 964447be17779ada6de1f85b26ae6d4b
SHA256: 6fc6c36cb9164ca1b1d56bf8d65cea796f47773700a8ea20c1d83c99c2df7996