How to Install and Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: March 15,2025

1. Install "adwaita-icon-theme" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install adwaita-icon-theme on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "adwaita-icon-theme" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall adwaita-icon-theme on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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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 adwaita-icon-theme package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: adwaita-icon-theme
Version: 3.38.0-1
Installed-Size: 26370
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: gnome-themes-standard-data (<< 3.18.0-2~)
Provides: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, gtk-update-icon-cache
Recommends: librsvg2-common
Breaks: gnome-themes-standard-data (<< 3.18.0-2~)
Description: default icon theme of GNOME
Description-md5: c90f325f67c5f4eab28bd6fcf1823c0a
Multi-Arch: foreign
Tag: uitoolkit::gtk
Section: gnome
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/adwaita-icon-theme/adwaita-icon-theme_3.38.0-1_all.deb
Size: 10854680
MD5sum: 721acd214a617844cf3f7f8dc61d1ea5
SHA256: 2046876c82fc1c342b38ace9aa0661bcb3e167837c984b4bdc89702bc78df5ac