How to Install and Uninstall libpq5 Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "libpq5" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libpq5 on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libpq5
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libpq5" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall libpq5 on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libpq5
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libpq5 package on Kali Linux

Package: libpq5
Source: postgresql-16
Version: 16.2-1
Installed-Size: 1040
Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.33), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libldap-2.5-0 (>= 2.5.4), libssl3 (>= 3.0.0)
Size: 215980
SHA256: 45283ecc507ee8ed11d0ad4792c1a9cdba3d06bc8f5427da191d4db3b0a2be9e
SHA1: 0ac76fbda26c2dce0f93aceb31e7fa07f25166b0
MD5sum: fe2984c597370e5ee40e6b6eb48903ff
Description: PostgreSQL C client library
libpq is a C library that enables user programs to communicate with
the PostgreSQL database server. The server can be on another machine
and accessed through TCP/IP. This version of libpq is compatible
with servers from PostgreSQL 8.2 or later.
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This package contains the run-time library, needed by packages using
libpq.
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PostgreSQL is an object-relational SQL database management system.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.postgresql.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/postgresql-16/libpq5_16.2-1_amd64.deb