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

Last updated: January 23,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "sympathy" package

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


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

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

Package: sympathy
Version: 1.2.1+woking+cvs+git20171124-1
Installed-Size: 175
Maintainer: Ian Jackson
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15)
Description: serial port concentrator system - server/client program
Description-md5: a111cc5c11b0c5157ff2f1e094026733
Section: comm
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sympathy/sympathy_1.2.1+woking+cvs+git20171124-1_amd64.deb
Size: 57260
MD5sum: da4d0bf62bd9a9648a2c9913f259717a
SHA256: 8b307b945e8308a3e8e0a3c52a96a0d65c725e44c46f36810f954a9f4a824267