How to Install and Uninstall libc6-dev Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "libc6-dev" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libc6-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libc6-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libc6-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libc6-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libc6-dev package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: libc6-dev
Source: glibc
Version: 2.31-13+deb11u3
Installed-Size: 14360
Maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libc-dev
Depends: libc6 (= 2.31-13+deb11u3), libc-dev-bin (= 2.31-13+deb11u3), linux-libc-dev, libcrypt-dev, libnsl-dev
Suggests: glibc-doc, manpages-dev
Conflicts: libc0.1-dev, libc0.3-dev, libc6.1-dev
Breaks: libc6-dev-amd64-cross (<< 2.31~), libgcc-10-dev (<< 10-20200321-1~), libgcc-7-dev (<< 7.5.0-6~), libgcc-8-dev (<< 8.4.0-2~), libgcc-9-dev (<< 9.3.0-5~), libperl5.26 (<< 5.26.1-3), python3.7 (<< 3.7.7-1+b1), python3.8 (<< 3.8.2-1+b1)
Description: GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Header Files
Description-md5: 1bbdc717d9acdb44db940928d570e749
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Build-Essential: yes
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c, role::devel-lib,
suite::gnu
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/glibc/libc6-dev_2.31-13+deb11u3_amd64.deb
Size: 2348120
MD5sum: 3428b499c1518d042b1bb9ac192d4695
SHA256: f64c41e2dba796167961485661fd6ec9b24ab1c48dff175a9b85056947b7b1d5