How to Install and Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: March 15,2025

You can also install and uninstall the adwaita-icon-theme on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
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1. Install "adwaita-icon-theme" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install adwaita-icon-theme on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "adwaita-icon-theme" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall adwaita-icon-theme on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the adwaita-icon-theme package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: adwaita-icon-theme
Version: 43-1
Installed-Size: 20899
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: gnome-themes-standard-data (<< 3.18.0-2~)
Provides: adwaita-icon-theme-full (= 43-1), gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, gtk-update-icon-cache
Recommends: librsvg2-common
Breaks: gnome-themes-standard-data (<< 3.18.0-2~)
Description: default icon theme of GNOME
Description-md5: c90f325f67c5f4eab28bd6fcf1823c0a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: role::data
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/adwaita-icon-theme/adwaita-icon-theme_43-1_all.deb
Size: 5124100
MD5sum: b095e05788c9ed776cdb7ae42700f7dd
SHA256: 4b67610565d16b604d3efd9908e8e4b5d71873c5d0f9347433df509020f22af7