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

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 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-wlr" package

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


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

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

Package: xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Version: 0.7.0-1
Installed-Size: 131
Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Architecture: amd64
Provides: xdg-desktop-portal-backend
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.109), libgbm1 (>= 21.3.0~rc1), libinih1 (>= 40), libpipewire-0.3-0 (>= 0.3.1), libsystemd0 (>= 243), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), xdg-desktop-portal, pipewire
Description: xdg-desktop-portal backend for wlroots
Description-md5: 141dbaf309d78ef931459d7ea4b29b35
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/emersion/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr/xdg-desktop-portal-wlr_0.7.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 42156
MD5sum: 7ff0878150d6bf7f92b03f3763e39ac8
SHA256: 8e07701a1cb27de9fd646c4c28cf9db0fd4773423f8666947d3998fc416fa13f