How To Install libdrm-radeon1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-radeon1
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdrm-radeon1
libdrm-radeon1 is:
This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libdrm-radeon1 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 94 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: libdrm Version: 2.4.102-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.38) Description-en: Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM services – runtime This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers. Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Homepage: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/
Package: libdrm-radeon1 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.4.101-2 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: libdrm Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 94 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.38) Filename: pool/main/libd/libdrm/libdrm-radeon1_2.4.101-2_amd64.deb Size: 19664 MD5sum: b9fedaa3dcf80d4a7a36dd7c08ac931c SHA1: d1240c5c04b613568c0329b3a44fb8e7985e51e1 SHA256: d2a134515fbeed781e083d2ca5342c066037b600b8189af74aff39c2a2a90958 Homepage: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/ Description-en: Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM services – runtime This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libdrm-radeon1
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libdrm-radeon1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-radeon1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdrm-radeon1
Install libdrm-radeon1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-radeon1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdrm-radeon1
Install libdrm-radeon1 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-radeon1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdrm-radeon1
How To Uninstall libdrm-radeon1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdrm-radeon1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdrm-radeon1
Uninstall libdrm-radeon1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdrm-radeon1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrm-radeon1
Remove libdrm-radeon1 Configurations and Data
To remove libdrm-radeon1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdrm-radeon1
Remove libdrm-radeon1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdrm-radeon1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrm-radeon1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-radeon1
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.