How to Install and Uninstall wayland-protocols Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "wayland-protocols" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install wayland-protocols on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "wayland-protocols" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall wayland-protocols on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the wayland-protocols package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: wayland-protocols
Version: 1.31-1
Installed-Size: 559
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: all
Description: wayland compositor protocols
Description-md5: 54eb65f80319460bda31d074dfcb2889
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/wayland-protocols/wayland-protocols_1.31-1_all.deb
Size: 74640
MD5sum: 7994829102d51ab77bdbb68f7f3982dd
SHA256: 562996db023320a80dad09a7aeb074186d9f3ec80d36f672e24596813bb4a580