How to Install and Uninstall zlib1g Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 10,2025

You can also install and uninstall the zlib1g on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "zlib1g" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install zlib1g on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                zlib1g
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "zlib1g" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall zlib1g 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 zlib1g package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: zlib1g
Source: zlib
Version: 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1
Installed-Size: 168
Maintainer: Mark Brown
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libz1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14)
Conflicts: zlib1 (<= 1:1.0.4-7)
Breaks: libxml2 (<< 2.7.6.dfsg-2), texlive-binaries (<< 2009-12)
Description: compression library - runtime
Description-md5: 567f396aeeb2b2b63295099aed237057
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://zlib.net/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/z/zlib/zlib1g_1.2.13.dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 86684
MD5sum: ec42cc09e926444a817ddd913057af67
SHA256: d7dd1d1411fedf27f5e27650a6eff20ef294077b568f4c8c5e51466dc7c08ce4