How to Install and Uninstall libtesseract-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "libtesseract-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libtesseract-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Learn how to uninstall libtesseract-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libtesseract-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 4.1.1-2.1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: tesseract
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 7366
Depends: libtesseract4 (= 4.1.1-2.1), libleptonica-dev, libarchive-dev
Breaks: tesseract-ocr-dev (<< 3.0.1-1~)
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-dev (<< 3.0.1-1~)
Filename: pool/universe/t/tesseract/libtesseract-dev_4.1.1-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 1450144
MD5sum: 4d2b564674e6377c88c56524d93e62ee
SHA1: 9adf12059f4e155b2c998e0d13a1a6abd2f4ed43
SHA256: 2bd444086543ec8b3d8cf7306b370532c4eebe85115862a527e8e358d0d12718
SHA512: 0e5edb726383d0555674208402d0c1446ea90e560210af5cce314358fe44d77e84c5f3a1567b193ea64626f8f3bc790e8fcae014f712cb87957a8ea94c4059fe
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Description-en: Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to
extract printed text from images. It supports a wide variety of
languages. This package includes the development files, static
library, and header files.
Description-md5: f6e772057deff3bcd995b32a578efb48