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

Last updated: December 23,2024

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

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1. Install "xdg-desktop-portal-gnome" package

This is a short guide on how to install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-gnome 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 xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Version: 43.1-2
Installed-Size: 1000
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Provides: xdg-desktop-portal-backend (= 1.7.1)
Depends: dbus-user-session | dbus-x11, gsettings-desktop-schemas, xdg-desktop-portal (>= 1.15.0), xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libadwaita-1-0 (>= 1.0.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.55.1), libgnome-bg-4-2 (>= 3.17.92), libgnome-desktop-4-2 (>= 3.17.92), libgtk-4-1 (>= 4.0.0), libx11-6
Recommends: gnome-shell (>= 41~) | budgie-desktop (>= 10.5.3-3~), gnome-settings-daemon (>= 41~)
Suggests: accountsservice, evince
Description: GNOME portal backend for xdg-desktop-portal
Description-md5: 48e6db76e7ddf15403a8632bb6fae9b8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome_43.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 174808
MD5sum: 9d4376c52afccfda6cb8c1eee6951576
SHA256: e34f3a5b7904accf6eb7517c441c815b4de5e251487b03af4bed83ef07c1f406