How to Install and Uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 30,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "open-vm-tools-desktop" package

Please follow the guidance below to install open-vm-tools-desktop on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "open-vm-tools-desktop" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the open-vm-tools-desktop package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: open-vm-tools-desktop
Source: open-vm-tools
Version: 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2
Installed-Size: 527
Maintainer: Bernd Zeimetz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.28.3), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.14.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.66.5), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.7), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 11), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libudev1 (>= 183), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libxext6, libxi6, libxinerama1 (>= 2:1.1.4), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxtst6, open-vm-tools (= 2:12.2.0-1+deb12u2), fuse3, kmod
Recommends: xauth, xserver-xorg-video-vmware
Suggests: xdg-utils
Description: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (GUI)
Description-md5: 0a75baf603aed1d261cb9d62936d3c0d
Homepage: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/o/open-vm-tools/open-vm-tools-desktop_12.2.0-1+deb12u2_amd64.deb
Size: 151780
MD5sum: 3508ddd65df298281f50e4f36d9ba5e1
SHA256: 4b5cb43b12a44847ade0e47bcef14f27e9444b9ef118d28a38ebcde93f399d8a