How to Install and Uninstall wordnet-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

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1. Install "wordnet-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install wordnet-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 "wordnet-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall wordnet-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 wordnet-dev package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wordnet-dev
Source: wordnet
Version: 1:3.0-37
Installed-Size: 193
Maintainer: Debian Science Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: wordnet (<< 1:3.0-30~)
Depends: wordnet (= 1:3.0-37)
Breaks: wordnet (<< 1:3.0-30~)
Description: electronic lexical database of English language (devel)
Description-md5: 2d3b071fedc636631c6bbb7c77ae8b22
Homepage: http://wordnet.princeton.edu/
Tag: devel::lang:c++, devel::library, field::linguistics,
interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::devel-lib, role::program,
uitoolkit::tk, use::checking, works-with::dictionary, x11::application
Section: devel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wordnet/wordnet-dev_3.0-37_amd64.deb
Size: 63276
MD5sum: 6afe92ea1a5dc9758ad8f74d50e4fb93
SHA256: 9114cdbbc9a8b36394065d8700da65b5600ff054f9f87323e06c8fbcb5560930