How to Install and Uninstall grim Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 02,2024

1. Install "grim" package

This tutorial shows how to install grim on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


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

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall grim on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                grim
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the grim package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: grim
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.1+ds-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 48
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.9.91)
Filename: pool/universe/g/grim/grim_1.3.1+ds-1_amd64.deb
Size: 13272
MD5sum: e62e6356b18d4b92e7b80ccaa1b8d426
SHA1: 7c5128ee2f6a1990fc786746aa8b9b0ca3535e81
SHA256: e985929bb80455ca600b54625cff9d140eef39392c86f924820b34193934648d
SHA512: f83947c5beb7ba402154a3e615ddd8624c1cb5826b809f6ecda0671ffef5d2d3c2aaee0fdd6a7e7c7f274106d4be1a1e6f4fac04c8aee1deed40a2a3bc8456c2
Homepage: https://wayland.emersion.fr/grim/
Description-en: command-line utility to make screenshots of Wayland desktops
grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. For now
it requires support for the screencopy protocol to work. Support for the
xdg-output protocol is optional, but improves fractional scaling support.
grim will write a PNG to a file or to stdout.
Description-md5: 58ff81024c1e940fd1ba2e303bfc9286