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

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "xclip" package

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


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

Learn how to uninstall xclip on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                xclip
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xclip package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: xclip
Version: 0.13-2
Installed-Size: 64
Maintainer: Alessandro Ghedini
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libx11-6, libxmu6
Recommends: xauth
Description: command line interface to X selections
Description-md5: 7de32c567d0e0ae3e774a47b7dbea945
Homepage: https://github.com/astrand/xclip
Tag: implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, interface::graphical,
interface::x11, role::program, scope::utility, uitoolkit::xlib,
works-with::text, x11::application
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xclip/xclip_0.13-2_amd64.deb
Size: 23328
MD5sum: 14db11fbe2d9a0722f60ef42740c1496
SHA256: 1a5be83e7062113187f0bb14da3832827fb0adc59bda1e54b8db318d2c39c6a2