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

Last updated: May 17,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "waybar" package

Please follow the steps below to install waybar on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall waybar 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 waybar package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: waybar
Version: 0.9.17-2
Installed-Size: 1944
Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.28.3), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairomm-1.0-1v5 (>= 1.14.4), libdate-tz3 (>= 3.0.1), libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 (>= 0.4.2), libevdev2 (>= 0.9.1), libfmt9 (>= 9.1.0+ds1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.67.3), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.66.5), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libgtk-layer-shell0 (>= 0.1.0), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.7), libinput10 (>= 0.15.0), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.10+20150825) | libjack-0.125, libjsoncpp25 (>= 1.9.5), libmpdclient2 (>= 2.0), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.27), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libsndio7.0 (>= 1.8.1), libspdlog1.10-fmt9, libstdc++6 (>= 11), libudev1 (>= 183), libupower-glib3 (>= 0.99.8), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libwireplumber-0.4-0 (>= 0.3.95), libxkbregistry0 (>= 1.0.0), init-system-helpers (>= 1.52)
Suggests: sway, fonts-font-awesome, libappindicator3-1
Description: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
Description-md5: 976a25225ecea58d93157b89198bbb40
Homepage: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/waybar/waybar_0.9.17-2_amd64.deb
Size: 583596
MD5sum: 2714449ac805d8d76e9de999edfb3edb
SHA256: ee9ba7326310fd33e49fbe9627da8f44a742f39b548564f11713a4659239af0f