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

Last updated: February 02,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "spectrwm" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install spectrwm on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "spectrwm" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall spectrwm 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 spectrwm package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: spectrwm
Version: 3.4.1-3
Installed-Size: 279
Maintainer: Andrea Bolognani
Architecture: amd64
Provides: x-window-manager
Depends: suckless-tools, xterm | x-terminal-emulator, libxt6, libc6 (>= 2.34), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.8.3), libxcb-icccm4 (>= 0.4.1), libxcb-keysyms1 (>= 0.4.0), libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.3), libxcb-util1 (>= 0.4.0), libxcb-xinput0 (>= 1.15), libxcb-xtest0, libxcb1, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxft2 (>> 2.1.1)
Recommends: xfonts-terminus
Description: dynamic tiling window manager
Description-md5: cb02b8bd798019f3f611ba3120917b28
Homepage: https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/spectrwm/spectrwm_3.4.1-3_amd64.deb
Size: 99480
MD5sum: b5f5b6247f2da9d692a878ff12c067ef
SHA256: ebeae88964a834ef5a2372f1a863512f66f129df2a790b4c9d68fd250f258402