How to Install and Uninstall libopenxr-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libopenxr-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libopenxr-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libopenxr-dev" package

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

Package: libopenxr-dev
Source: openxr-sdk-source (1.0.20~dfsg1-1)
Version: 1.0.20~dfsg1-1+b2
Installed-Size: 338
Maintainer: Ryan Pavlik
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libopenxr-loader1 (= 1.0.20~dfsg1-1+b2)
Suggests: openxr-layer-corevalidation (= 1.0.20~dfsg1-1+b2)
Description: OpenXR software development kit -- development headers
Description-md5: bbcfe44d8583c528180709ac5cb32d5f
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/OpenXR-SDK-Source
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/openxr-sdk-source/libopenxr-dev_1.0.20~dfsg1-1+b2_amd64.deb
Size: 48236
MD5sum: 7ebd3499d7ddefccd3a362faecd68dd2
SHA256: ec762ad0929afcd29cde830f4b8e46843932d8218193ce973256772f48da517a