How to Install and Uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 16,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mesa-vulkan-drivers" package

Learn how to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mesa-vulkan-drivers" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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3. Information about the mesa-vulkan-drivers package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mesa-vulkan-drivers
Source: mesa
Version: 22.3.6-1+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 35599
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Provides: vulkan-icd
Depends: libvulkan1, python3:any | python3-minimal:any, libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm-amdgpu1 (>= 2.4.110), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.99), libelf1 (>= 0.142), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libllvm15, libstdc++6 (>= 11), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.8.4), libxcb-dri3-0 (>= 1.13), libxcb-present0, libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.13), libxcb-shm0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxshmfence1, libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description: Mesa Vulkan graphics drivers
Description-md5: de68f7559174261711b175701783338c
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mesa/mesa-vulkan-drivers_22.3.6-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 7999848
MD5sum: 8add196f7939f0af7647b25d37348861
SHA256: 0125dc2607378f2c4f039027435bc7fc508debc6bd45b4ef9e99975dc20a540a