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

Last updated: May 09,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "xwayland" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install xwayland on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

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


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

Package: xwayland
Version: 2:22.1.9-1
Installed-Size: 2340
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Depends: xserver-common, libc6 (>= 2.36), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libepoxy0 (>= 1.5.4), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.10.0), libgl1, libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.30.0), libtirpc3 (>= 1.0.2), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.20.0), libxau6 (>= 1:1.0.9), libxcvt0 (>= 0.1.0), libxdmcp6, libxfont2 (>= 1:2.0.1), libxshmfence1
Description: X server for running X clients under Wayland
Description-md5: 46119f00e9401992b76d381dca9d3438
Homepage: https://www.x.org/
Section: x11
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/x/xwayland/xwayland_22.1.9-1_amd64.deb
Size: 870072
MD5sum: 400d09df54ed90be9facd01895fb3f22
SHA256: ab9234a54433c69593983ffdcd92bfe4882ff0a6302fcc1e64607da35682c631