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

Last updated: October 04,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "sway" package

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


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall sway 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 sway package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: sway
Version: 1.7-6
Installed-Size: 875
Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libgl1-mesa-dri, swaybg, polkitd, libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libevdev2 (>= 0.9.1), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.31.1), libgles2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libinput10 (>= 1.6.0), libjson-c5 (>= 0.15), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpcre2-8-0 (>= 10.22), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.25.2), libsystemd0 (>= 243), libudev1 (>= 183), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libwayland-cursor0 (>= 1.20.0), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.20.0), libwlroots10 (>= 0.15.0), libxcb1, libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.7.0)
Recommends: suckless-tools, sway-backgrounds, foot
Suggests: swayidle, swaylock, xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Description: i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Description-md5: 79878be35b16de04754780f02aa6eb5c
Homepage: http://swaywm.org
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/sway/sway_1.7-6_amd64.deb
Size: 309364
MD5sum: 27b6866f1835f0ac9abb344a3fb1db56
SHA256: 0ea541540d7d6ab1c520ce8f8ace7892d07454c99d62375392f47045d213e8d6