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

Last updated: December 24,2024

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

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1. Install "weston" package

Learn how to install weston on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall weston 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 weston package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: weston
Source: weston (10.0.1-1)
Version: 10.0.1-1+b1
Installed-Size: 4273
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libweston-8-dev
Depends: adduser, libc6 (>= 2.33), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcolord2 (>= 1.4.3), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.107), libegl1, libevdev2 (>= 0.9.1), libgbm1 (>= 21.1.0), libgles2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libinput10 (>= 1.4.0), libjpeg62-turbo (>= 1.3.1), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.30.0), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libsystemd0, libudev1 (>= 183), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libwayland-cursor0 (>= 1.18.0), libwayland-egl1 (>= 1.18.0), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.18.0), libwebp7, libweston-10-0 (>= 10.0.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri
Conflicts: libweston-8-dev
Breaks: libweston-8-dev
Description: reference implementation of a wayland compositor
Description-md5: a6199b5b4d9e6a3de92c2ec580664e79
Homepage: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Tag: implemented-in::c, role::program
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/w/weston/weston_10.0.1-1+b1_amd64.deb
Size: 849628
MD5sum: 39be72f449d6667aaf699c7390da1b99
SHA256: 1609d01eacdf938125a93886c39fc24ace2e3bbde63e2d52bd637bb332650e11