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

Last updated: May 13,2024

1. Install "wget" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install wget on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall wget on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


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

Package: wget
Version: 1.21-1+deb11u1
Installed-Size: 3476
Maintainer: Noël Köthe
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libgnutls30 (>= 3.7.0), libidn2-0 (>= 0.6), libnettle8, libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libpsl5 (>= 0.16.0), libuuid1 (>= 2.16), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: ca-certificates
Conflicts: wget-ssl
Description: retrieves files from the web
Description-md5: 63a4a740bcd9e8e94bf661e4f1806e02
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, network::client,
protocol::ftp, protocol::http, protocol::ssl, role::program,
suite::gnu, use::downloading, works-with::file
Section: web
Priority: standard
Filename: pool/main/w/wget/wget_1.21-1+deb11u1_amd64.deb
Size: 963956
MD5sum: 67a32d704166d60924e9fb9a4a75356f
SHA256: 4642d6a748815497d57d3b69ac22938ba8df3d0764ec47d2ceb50eec2a46ab3b