How to Install and Uninstall w3m Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 30,2024

You can also install and uninstall the w3m on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "w3m" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install w3m on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "w3m" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall w3m on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                w3m
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the w3m package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3+git20230121-2
Installed-Size: 2828
Maintainer: Tatsuya Kinoshita
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: w3m-ssl, w3mmee
Provides: www-browser
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgc1 (>= 1:7.2d), libgpm2 (>= 1.20.7), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0), libtinfo6 (>= 6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Suggests: brotli, bzip2, cmigemo, compface, dict, dict-wn, dictd, libsixel-bin, mailcap, man-db, media-types, sensible-utils, w3m-el, w3m-img, wget | curl, xdg-utils, xsel
Conflicts: w3m-ssl
Description: WWW browsable pager with excellent tables/frames support
Description-md5: 26efbac8f49a7336867e47878e631edd
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/w3m
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::text-mode, network::client,
protocol::http, protocol::ip, protocol::ipv6, role::program,
uitoolkit::ncurses, use::browsing, web::browser,
works-with-format::html, works-with::text
Section: web
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/w3m/w3m_0.5.3+git20230121-2_amd64.deb
Size: 1102260
MD5sum: d0fa9ccce1c19fdf1e4eb81d370a62e8
SHA256: ca17595d7857c200e4557c9dc58f560aa1fe8955b6156ae15b2d5d0f5e23d3a7