How to Install and Uninstall mutter Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 15,2024

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

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1. Install "mutter" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install mutter on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mutter
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mutter" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall mutter 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 mutter package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mutter
Version: 43.8-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 203
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: x-window-manager
Depends: adwaita-icon-theme, gnome-settings-daemon-common, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 40~alpha), mutter-common (>= 43.8-0+deb12u1), zenity, libc6 (>= 2.34), libgles2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.69.0), libmutter-11-0 (>= 43.0), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.21.0), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.5)
Suggests: gnome-control-center (>= 1:3.25.2), xdg-user-dirs
Description: Example window manager using GNOME's window manager library
Description-md5: e1aaf47f1a0045c06fca32ec80a0a883
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::graphical, interface::x11, role::program,
scope::application, uitoolkit::gtk, x11::window-manager
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/mutter_43.8-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 131936
MD5sum: f4dfbae31c4ccefd85a4b7aeedeee1b6
SHA256: d58ee7597f61efb983737f94840e39e0b582def03c2b401b99fca9955dbd09de