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

Last updated: May 14,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "swaylock" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install swaylock on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall swaylock 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 swaylock package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: swaylock
Version: 1.7.2-1
Installed-Size: 121
Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.31.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Description: Screen locker for Wayland
Description-md5: 3e3bd4348840e86c25f6a86685be2a0d
Homepage: https://github.com/swaywm/swaylock
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/swaylock/swaylock_1.7.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 30404
MD5sum: 4d3cb7b7794f8c826e4587bb83068e57
SHA256: a6f62cdbaefbd35cfb95815eff8e5dc2756bc5942f2a906d38ed600cfc673ffc