How to Install and Uninstall gnome-shell-extensions Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: December 28,2024

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

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1. Install "gnome-shell-extensions" package

Learn how to install gnome-shell-extensions on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "gnome-shell-extensions" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gnome-shell-extensions 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-shell-extensions package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: gnome-shell-extensions
Version: 43.1-1
Installed-Size: 1175
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: gnome-shell-common (<< 3.18)
Depends: gir1.2-adw-1, gir1.2-atk-1.0, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-gmenu-3.0, gir1.2-graphene-1.0 (>= 1.10.2), gir1.2-gtk-4.0, gir1.2-pango-1.0, gnome-session-bin (>= 3.8), gnome-settings-daemon (>= 3.24), gnome-shell (<< 44~), gnome-shell (>= 43~), gvfs (>= 1.16.0), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
Recommends: gnome-shell-extension-prefs
Breaks: gnome-shell-common (<< 3.18)
Description: Extensions to extend functionality of GNOME Shell
Description-md5: 84cde06696cd051cbc9e19abcb0efe82
Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeShell/Extensions
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-shell-extensions/gnome-shell-extensions_43.1-1_all.deb
Size: 161140
MD5sum: 2bd234964503039b969bfc58bad3d7e7
SHA256: 96a6073987a98b62014e95f82aa3d80100d3d381a44fd692311b66140d3d278c