How to Install and Uninstall libarchive-dev Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "libarchive-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libarchive-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install libarchive-dev

2. Uninstall "libarchive-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libarchive-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye):

$ sudo apt remove libarchive-dev $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the libarchive-dev package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: libarchive-dev
Source: libarchive
Version: 3.4.3-2+deb11u1
Installed-Size: 1734
Maintainer: Peter Pentchev
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libarchive13 (= 3.4.3-2+deb11u1)
Description: Multi-format archive and compression library (development files)
Description-md5: 68ad6870c167e8363f56ccdc0da60667
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.libarchive.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/liba/libarchive/libarchive-dev_3.4.3-2+deb11u1_amd64.deb
Size: 518568
MD5sum: 2c9c92efd08e5aa653292b60e0fbe965
SHA256: 01c4dcfdac3848d54bac1ab4e6ab1e0327947b10bb8300abbd7b83c2cad8f2b6