How To Install libglx0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libglx0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libglx0
libglx0 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 GLX. 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: libglx0 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: 163 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglvnd0 (= 1.3.1-1), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.4.99.1), libglx-mesa0 Filename: pool/main/libg/libglvnd/libglx0_1.3.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 32644 MD5sum: a6dfbd9668e2d36b5ec62dabf9818545 SHA1: f1ccd778a09a7c7fd5c8f26b61024e90c02858ab SHA256: 730f9c5d6ffc6afb59ef42e7d75e3897f71d630763db42351356b3330639af2b Homepage: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/glvnd/libglvnd Description-en: Vendor neutral GL dispatch library – GLX 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 GLX. 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 libglx0
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 libglx0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libglx0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libglx0
Install libglx0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libglx0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libglx0
Install libglx0 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 libglx0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libglx0
How To Uninstall libglx0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libglx0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libglx0
Uninstall libglx0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libglx0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libglx0
Remove libglx0 Configurations and Data
To remove libglx0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libglx0
Remove libglx0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libglx0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libglx0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libglx0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.