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

Last updated: May 01,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "rungetty" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install rungetty on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall rungetty 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 rungetty package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: rungetty
Source: rungetty (1.2-16.1)
Version: 1.2-16.1+b1
Installed-Size: 44
Maintainer: Rhonda D'Vine
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: minimal console getty that can run any process
Description-md5: 8ed382c887d7930021aa1be962cc55d7
Tag: admin::login, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::login
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/r/rungetty/rungetty_1.2-16.1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 13916
MD5sum: 9a4f2182550a5cba49383e386c196c6d
SHA256: 25b08142c1d2584ad97d68a1786ac461f648c5c32c59dcf0c58f35a7f259aa29