How to Install and Uninstall mate-desktop Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 17,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mate-desktop" package

Please follow the guidance below to install mate-desktop on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mate-desktop" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall mate-desktop 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 mate-desktop package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mate-desktop
Version: 1.26.0-2
Installed-Size: 111
Maintainer: Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: mate-desktop-gnome
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, libmate-desktop-2-17 (>= 1.10.0), mate-desktop-common (= 1.26.0-2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.50.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.0)
Recommends: mate-user-guide
Suggests: mate-desktop-environment
Breaks: mate-desktop-gnome
Description: Library with common API for various MATE modules
Description-md5: 6d7d3150b8e89c4689a4a7170fbe0634
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mate-desktop/mate-desktop_1.26.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 30460
MD5sum: edcf7b2c73407e8f94808ab935dcfbc9
SHA256: be5d96f09e53c94267814524d1ee1305515a5af9572a2a387db68a43827f145d