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

Last updated: March 14,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "vt" package

This tutorial shows how to install vt on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall vt 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 vt package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: vt
Version: 0.57721+ds-3
Installed-Size: 2565
Maintainer: Debian Med Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libhts3 (>= 1.10), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), r-base-core
Description: toolset for short variant discovery in genetic sequence data
Description-md5: 64a323ea15dddc144c1570bf0e8f8f87
Homepage: https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/Vt
Section: science
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/v/vt/vt_0.57721+ds-3_amd64.deb
Size: 774388
MD5sum: 8f171dc43a513851072c1723d8a6b956
SHA256: 151976c818dc64082e9b9999c00f512d1712c710734f95a1a24f51f6a2df02cf