How to Install and Uninstall xdg-desktop-portal Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "xdg-desktop-portal" package

Please follow the instructions below to install xdg-desktop-portal on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "xdg-desktop-portal" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall xdg-desktop-portal on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the xdg-desktop-portal package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: xdg-desktop-portal
Version: 1.16.0-2
Installed-Size: 1773
Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: flatpak (<< 0.10.4-1~)
Depends: bubblewrap, default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus, fuse3, init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libc6 (>= 2.34), libfuse3-3 (>= 3.12.0), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.70.0), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.2), libpipewire-0.3-0 (>= 0.3.10), libsystemd0
Breaks: flatpak (<< 0.10.4-1~)
Description: desktop integration portal for Flatpak and Snap
Description-md5: 7eac259f6a9a24c9e234ad737a8c6945
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xdg-desktop-portal/xdg-desktop-portal_1.16.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 331716
MD5sum: 894750985956dfede6904761061f759a
SHA256: 8ea89880666eabcbe436c6dfbcb96eabf411404df5a95ba9b8b0f44654932dbc