How to Install and Uninstall libreadline8 Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "libreadline8" package

Please follow the steps below to install libreadline8 on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libreadline8
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libreadline8" package

Learn how to uninstall libreadline8 on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libreadline8
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libreadline8 package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: libreadline8
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.2-1.3
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: important
Section: libs
Source: readline
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 461
Depends: readline-common, libc6 (>= 2.33), libtinfo6 (>= 6)
Filename: pool/main/r/readline/libreadline8_8.2-1.3_amd64.deb
Size: 150632
MD5sum: 018a984b5ca963b69008d155f41311e1
SHA1: f48e847bcef479090545693fe99a26e682ddd87d
SHA256: 6035812b301d3334e20a0737d2e598946fcee1127cb9c7a569b202b61b0f6333
SHA512: 07b39a48cbd54b109ba7eda7e75185c3ca822974d175936d030d13b91f022c53addaf0d348ab9e83c6a29f7d5202f7c6ccf88df04c4b06b1af1b6279b769acbe
Description: GNU readline and history libraries, run-time libraries
Description-md5: 02109af5819248ca867891090079f329
Task: minimal, server-minimal, cloud-minimal