How To Install wayland-protocols on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-protocols on Debian 12.
What is wayland-protocols
wayland-protocols is:
Wayland protocols that add functionality not available in the Wayland core protocol. Such protocols either add completely new functionality, or extend the functionality of some other protocol either in Wayland core, or some other protocol in wayland-protocols.
There are three methods to install wayland-protocols on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wayland-protocols Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wayland-protocols using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wayland-protocols
Install wayland-protocols Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wayland-protocols using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wayland-protocols
Install wayland-protocols Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install wayland-protocols using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wayland-protocols
How To Uninstall wayland-protocols on Debian 12
To uninstall only the wayland-protocols package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wayland-protocols
Uninstall wayland-protocols And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wayland-protocols and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wayland-protocols
Remove wayland-protocols Configurations and Data
To remove wayland-protocols configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wayland-protocols
Remove wayland-protocols configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wayland-protocols configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wayland-protocols
Dependencies
wayland-protocols have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-protocols package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
