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

Last updated: June 02,2024

You can also install and uninstall the mate-desktop-environment 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 "mate-desktop-environment" package

This is a short guide on how to install mate-desktop-environment 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-environment" package

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

Package: mate-desktop-environment
Version: 1.26.0+1
Installed-Size: 12
Maintainer: Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Provides: mate
Depends: mate-desktop-environment-core (= 1.26.0+1)
Recommends: atril (>= 1.26), desktop-base | ubuntu-mate-wallpapers, engrampa (>= 1.26), eom (>= 1.26), ffmpegthumbnailer, libcanberra-pulse, mate-backgrounds (>= 1.26) | ubuntu-mate-wallpapers, mate-calc (>= 1.26), mate-applet-brisk-menu, mate-applets (>= 1.26), mate-media (>= 1.26), mate-notification-daemon (>= 1.26), mate-power-manager (>= 1.26), mate-screensaver (>= 1.26), mate-system-monitor (>= 1.26), mate-user-guide (>= 1.26), mate-utils (>= 1.26), pluma (>= 1.26)
Suggests: mail-reader | thunderbird, network-manager-gnome, x-www-browser | firefox, mate-desktop-environment-extras (>= 1.26)
Description: MATE Desktop Environment (metapackage)
Description-md5: 8105273afc4042ae9495ec264fc266e6
Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mate-desktop-environment/mate-desktop-environment_1.26.0+1_all.deb
Size: 6256
MD5sum: cbca4ce85892c047db8f1d36fcb46261
SHA256: b10aaa50b76e92a9cb7025ecacd74e1dc07e98da46e81a5ea25cb4cd69326fd9