How to Install and Uninstall ancient Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "ancient" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install ancient on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall ancient on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 ancient package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: ancient
Version: 1.0-2
Installed-Size: 269
Maintainer: Gürkan Myczko
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Description: decompression routines for ancient formats
Description-md5: f3d0e341d7719136d3c04d44f91ab80c
Homepage: https://github.com/temisu/ancient
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/ancient/ancient_1.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 100152
MD5sum: a27de362d107e473a4763c0951c23123
SHA256: f02409b0f929e6e8000ff76eac0e20158f186401e5c482792914004469c7928f