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

Last updated: January 23,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "gnome-icon-theme" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install gnome-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 "gnome-icon-theme" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gnome-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 gnome-icon-theme package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: gnome-icon-theme
Version: 3.12.0-5
Installed-Size: 15189
Maintainer: Leonardo Rodrigues Pereira
Architecture: all
Depends: gtk-update-icon-cache, hicolor-icon-theme, librsvg2-common
Enhances: nautilus (>= 2.2)
Description: This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME
Description-md5: 416abd96804966206e6ebef2abb8e56f
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://download.gnome.org/sources/gnome-icon-theme
Tag: interface::graphical, interface::x11, made-of::icons, made-of::svg,
role::app-data, role::program, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::theme
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-icon-theme/gnome-icon-theme_3.12.0-5_all.deb
Size: 9867072
MD5sum: 46101654049116a1db8461698b946161
SHA256: 243520edcff2c309065b7e12ae08f666580e6098ecafa0c0f7d28c75aedcfdc3