How To Install libdrm-tests on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-tests
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdrm-tests
libdrm-tests 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.
This package contains a variety of tools for testing from the libdrm project.
Package: libdrm-tests Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.4.101-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/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: 235 Depends: libdrm2 (= 2.4.101-2), libc6 (>= 2.15) Filename: pool/universe/libd/libdrm/libdrm-tests_2.4.101-2_amd64.deb Size: 45108 MD5sum: 7978d1bed9067b60014430c5aac6eb34 SHA1: 82067627ea2f8fcad688f0b04668af0968de7919 SHA256: f27e2a3c64d28fa1036a449fd5a25d26ab37521da8ba16a5fea82e9e319b6df6 Homepage: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/ Description-en: Testing tools from the libdrm project 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.
This package contains a variety of tools for testing from the libdrm project.
There are three methods to install libdrm-tests
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-tests 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-tests
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdrm-tests
Install libdrm-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-tests
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdrm-tests
Install libdrm-tests 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-tests
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdrm-tests
How To Uninstall libdrm-tests on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdrm-tests
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdrm-tests
Uninstall libdrm-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdrm-tests
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrm-tests
Remove libdrm-tests Configurations and Data
To remove libdrm-tests
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdrm-tests
Remove libdrm-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdrm-tests
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrm-tests
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-tests
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.