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

Last updated: February 16,2025

You can also install and uninstall the whiff 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 "whiff" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install whiff on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall whiff on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: whiff
Version: 0.008-1
Installed-Size: 26
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any, libfile-which-perl
Description: helper to find the first executable of a series of alternatives
Description-md5: 9335b789ae553f2ec7ed9d7f7760c291
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/App-Whiff
Tag: implemented-in::perl, role::program, use::searching
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/whiff/whiff_0.008-1_all.deb
Size: 8916
MD5sum: 20c1271089dd5c7adbd1a44b281c35a4
SHA256: 369597045cd279bcab56439c636b64feb8aa2a59de6d109641ad5ae3052b10c7