How to Install and Uninstall primus-vk Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "primus-vk" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install primus-vk on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "primus-vk" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall primus-vk 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 primus-vk package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: primus-vk
Version: 1.6.2-2
Installed-Size: 18
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: primus-vk-nvidia (<< 1.4-2~)
Depends: primus, libprimus-vk1
Suggests: primus-vk-nvidia
Breaks: primus-vk-nvidia (<< 1.4-2~)
Description: Vulkan layer for GPU offloading
Description-md5: f31384e21e05aff86907e8c0495ecc4f
Homepage: https://github.com/felixdoerre/primus_vk
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/primus-vk/primus-vk_1.6.2-2_all.deb
Size: 4184
MD5sum: 2fb88bbad17057e6a13befbd26cd5ee7
SHA256: 971de68a38d949b2add943a0eb15018fea0110c6b897f28de06f82c4b8dbb0bb