How to Install and Uninstall cinnamon-screensaver Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 19,2024

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

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1. Install "cinnamon-screensaver" package

This guide let you learn how to install cinnamon-screensaver on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "cinnamon-screensaver" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall cinnamon-screensaver 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 cinnamon-screensaver package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: cinnamon-screensaver
Version: 5.6.3-1
Installed-Size: 372
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper (<< 3.8), cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin (<< 3.9), cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin (<< 3.9)
Depends: cinnamon-desktop-data (>= 5.2), gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0, gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0 (>= 5.2), gir1.2-cscreensaver-1.0 (= 5.6.3-1), gir1.2-gkbd-3.0, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-gtk-3.0, gir1.2-xapp-1.0, iso-flags-png-320x240, libcscreensaver0 (= 5.6.3-1), python3-gi, python3-gi-cairo, python3-setproctitle, python3-xapp, python3-xlib, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.39.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
Recommends: libpam-gnome-keyring
Breaks: cinnamon (<< 5.2~), cinnamon-core (<< 5.2~), cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper (<< 3.8), cinnamon-screensaver-webkit-plugin (<< 3.9), cinnamon-screensaver-x-plugin (<< 3.9)
Description: Cinnamon screen saver and locker
Description-md5: 8b61f0d92305f37fe8e1fd511f0a23f5
Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/c/cinnamon-screensaver/cinnamon-screensaver_5.6.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 66260
MD5sum: 11e23038da120d5f4825bde12020d884
SHA256: 35811c10c436d965a97611d107e2c22893c46483981ff44de709c56053b83355