How to Install and Uninstall tk8.6-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

You can also install and uninstall the tk8.6-dev on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "tk8.6-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install tk8.6-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "tk8.6-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall tk8.6-dev 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 tk8.6-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: tk8.6-dev
Source: tk8.6
Version: 8.6.13-2
Installed-Size: 3342
Maintainer: Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~), x11proto-core-dev, libx11-dev, libxss-dev, libxext-dev, libxft-dev, tcl8.6-dev (>= 8.6.0-2), libtk8.6 (= 8.6.13-2), tk8.6
Suggests: tk8.6-doc
Description: Tk toolkit for Tcl and X11 v8.6 - development files
Description-md5: 5081fc14ac8d13fb09d3d3f090596c49
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.tcl.tk/
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tk8.6/tk8.6-dev_8.6.13-2_amd64.deb
Size: 780992
MD5sum: 5437ba675474f438b74a3ad4b31055fb
SHA256: f64f0920ed53a01aa339ee8ff08dbf4dab97ece3b0f2ad5b4ba90d7394a9d9bc