How To Install libgles2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgles2
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libgles2
libgles2 is:
This is an implementation of the vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis.
This package contains support for GLESv2. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libgles2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.3.1-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: extra Section: libs Source: libglvnd Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 106 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglvnd0 (= 1.3.1-1) Filename: pool/main/libg/libglvnd/libgles2_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 15604 MD5sum: da3acae940f2b26d1834466eb0fdfb41 SHA1: 123a6cf6ee8e8ad01a50a1c53f68e973c6d633a1 SHA256: 5d14ccfe57ca13d07404132edd5dde0f454cf5a334e98cffe9f4fc967aebc7fb Homepage: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd Description-en: Vendor neutral GL dispatch library – GLESv2 support This is an implementation of the vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors on a per-screen basis.
This package contains support for GLESv2. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libgles2
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 libgles2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libgles2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libgles2
Install libgles2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libgles2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libgles2
Install libgles2 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 libgles2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libgles2
How To Uninstall libgles2 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libgles2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libgles2
Uninstall libgles2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libgles2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgles2
Remove libgles2 Configurations and Data
To remove libgles2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libgles2
Remove libgles2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libgles2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgles2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libgles2
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.