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

Last updated: February 24,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mate-screensaver-common" package

Please follow the instructions below to install mate-screensaver-common 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-screensaver-common" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall mate-screensaver-common 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-screensaver-common package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mate-screensaver-common
Source: mate-screensaver
Version: 1.26.1-1+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 6168
Maintainer: Debian+Ubuntu MATE Packaging Team
Architecture: all
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend
Breaks: mate-screensaver (<< 1.5.2)
Description: MATE screen saver and locker (common files)
Description-md5: d44b2330b9b1c87e5203c9cdb17d5a0e
Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mate-screensaver/mate-screensaver-common_1.26.1-1+deb12u1_all.deb
Size: 4583820
MD5sum: 77e4b4e3d7e35e35fe513877e1f31d25
SHA256: 4882a5d2ade33bad2848d1cfbec0007847b44d182e315886a76a143f80eba81a