How to Install and Uninstall original-awk Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "original-awk" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install original-awk on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                original-awk
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "original-awk" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall original-awk on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


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

Package: original-awk
Version: 2018-08-27-1
Installed-Size: 176
Maintainer: Santiago Vila
Architecture: amd64
Provides: awk
Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29)
Description: The original awk described in "The AWK Programming Language"
Description-md5: 7a3c565b081bc0f03d9e79a6fd87fe27
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk
Tag: devel::interpreter, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
role::program, scope::utility, use::filtering, use::scanning,
works-with::text
Section: interpreters
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/original-awk/original-awk_2018-08-27-1_amd64.deb
Size: 77120
MD5sum: b1314c8d3ad47d6e902e8ab7420a12c8
SHA256: b74238e82785020c28377368cf11a706c1e9487977e76427e51acfd362448fc3