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

Last updated: May 12,2024

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

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1. Install "yq" package

Learn how to install yq on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall yq 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 yq package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: yq
Version: 3.1.0-3
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Architecture: all
Depends: jq, python3-argcomplete, python3-toml, python3-xmltodict, python3-yaml, python3:any
Description: Command-line YAML processor - jq wrapper for YAML documents
Description-md5: e168e9bd0cea1c19c11e7739b09b2fa1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/kislyuk/yq
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/y/yq/yq_3.1.0-3_all.deb
Size: 19228
MD5sum: d82b3455afb635cde014d9af9a10f19a
SHA256: 977e041c6caf8edfe799ccd6648d0588f47415f1db1b60c00525c85cdd44bf28