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

Last updated: December 28,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "systemd" package

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


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "systemd" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall systemd 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 systemd package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: systemd
Version: 252.22-1~deb12u1
Installed-Size: 9653
Maintainer: Debian systemd Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: systemd-sysusers (= 252.22-1~deb12u1), systemd-tmpfiles (= 252.22-1~deb12u1)
Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.23), libaudit1 (>= 1:2.2.1), libblkid1 (>= 2.24.2), libcryptsetup12 (>= 2:2.4), libfdisk1 (>= 2.33), libkmod2 (>= 15), libp11-kit0 (>= 0.23.18.1), libseccomp2 (>= 2.3.1), libsystemd-shared (= 252.22-1~deb12u1), libsystemd0 (= 252.22-1~deb12u1), mount
Pre-Depends: libblkid1 (>= 2.24), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcap2 (>= 1:2.10), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.0), liblz4-1 (>= 0.0~r122), liblzma5 (>= 5.1.1alpha+20120614), libmount1 (>= 2.30), libselinux1 (>= 3.1~), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2)
Recommends: default-dbus-system-bus | dbus-system-bus, systemd-timesyncd | time-daemon
Suggests: systemd-container, systemd-homed, systemd-userdbd, systemd-boot, systemd-resolved, libfido2-1, libqrencode4, libtss2-esys-3.0.2-0, libtss2-mu0, libtss2-rc0, polkitd | policykit-1
Conflicts: consolekit, libpam-ck-connector, systemd-shim
Breaks: less (<< 563), resolvconf (<< 1.83~), sicherboot (<< 0.1.6), udev (<< 247~)
Description: system and service manager
Description-md5: 2728f00e9cb47f195aa39097a3afbc42
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd
Tag: admin::boot, implemented-in::c, interface::daemon, role::program,
works-with::software:running
Section: admin
Priority: important
Filename: pool/main/s/systemd/systemd_252.22-1~deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 3031764
MD5sum: 1eabc7000ba33dcf2017d1b7da391f20
SHA256: 0c971c39033481078058f2407d8c68234ea454ea168ba2a17649bb97242ec674