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

Last updated: March 14,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "plank" package

Please follow the instructions below to install plank on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall plank 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 plank package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: plank
Source: plank (0.11.89-4)
Version: 0.11.89-4+b1
Installed-Size: 522
Maintainer: Rico Tzschichholz
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libplank1 (= 0.11.89-4+b1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.13.0), libgee-0.8-2 (>= 0.8.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.40.0), libgnome-menu-3-0 (>= 3.2.0.1), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.10.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libwnck-3-0 (>= 2.91.6)
Suggests: libplank-doc
Description: Elegant, simple, clean dock
Description-md5: b9109d91a55d0e2aab489b4b792f0107
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/plank
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/plank/plank_0.11.89-4+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 148908
MD5sum: d21fef29b4991203e8365d75e1fbaf42
SHA256: 274596777109b84674a2633eb2ea125fefb76590d6f78fc9f5a1dd5b1363878f