How to Install and Uninstall dasher Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "dasher" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install dasher on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Learn how to uninstall dasher on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                dasher
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the dasher package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: dasher
Version: 5.0.0~beta~repack2-4
Installed-Size: 1081
Maintainer: Debian Accessibility Team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libatspi2.0-0 (>= 2.9.90), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libspeechd2 (>= 0.7.1), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libatk-adaptor, dasher-data (= 5.0.0~beta~repack2-4)
Description: graphical predictive text input system
Description-md5: 146f78c1eeda21f7706f6e7b39a393a1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Tag: accessibility::input, interface::graphical, interface::x11,
role::program, scope::application, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk,
x11::application
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/d/dasher/dasher_5.0.0~beta~repack2-4_amd64.deb
Size: 328820
MD5sum: a51f63d665645568eac8dfa05465a87d
SHA256: dedcea7375b95527346b27b25619f483e321eb7ccc0c4c051955fbf872121f1a