How to Install and Uninstall gnome-games-app Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 23,2025

You can also install and uninstall the gnome-games-app 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 "gnome-games-app" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install gnome-games-app on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gnome-games-app" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall gnome-games-app 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 gnome-games-app package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: gnome-games-app
Version: 40.0-4
Installed-Size: 4249
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: libretro-frontend
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libarchive13 (>= 3.0.4), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libgrilo-0.3-0 (>= 0.3.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.23.1), libhandy-1-0 (>= 1.1.90), libmanette-0.2-0 (>= 0.2.0), libretro-gtk-1-0 (>= 1.0.0), librsvg2-2 (>= 2.46.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.41.90), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libtracker-sparql-3.0-0 (>= 3.1.1), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), tracker (>= 3.0)
Recommends: grilo-plugins-0.3
Description: Game browser and launcher for GNOME
Description-md5: 836fae346651a8655668124e13c58400
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Games
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: games
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-games-app/gnome-games-app_40.0-4_amd64.deb
Size: 746316
MD5sum: 6ef57e9175bb72d3e4ab542b86c9d7b8
SHA256: a8e9f946cc4490a78a61ca8b45371dbeb98e82ac0d422d17cd28db9f7e7efdcf