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

Last updated: March 04,2025

1. Install "libtesseract-dev" package

This is a short guide on how to install libtesseract-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

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


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

Package: libtesseract-dev
Source: tesseract
Version: 4.1.1-2.1
Installed-Size: 7418
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-dev (<< 3.0.1-1~)
Depends: libtesseract4 (= 4.1.1-2.1), libleptonica-dev, libarchive-dev
Breaks: tesseract-ocr-dev (<< 3.0.1-1~)
Description: Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool
Description-md5: f6e772057deff3bcd995b32a578efb48
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract/libtesseract-dev_4.1.1-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 1517144
MD5sum: b8c60d5dfdd222e4773ad8ad39335f0f
SHA256: 6eb07de28245792b5fc390fa8a53fbf98d9c3c726a30fd00046ef43434918fce