How To Install libinput10 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput10 on Ubuntu 20.04. libinput10 is input device management and event handling library - shared library input device management and event handling library - shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput10 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `libinput10`

libinput10 is:

libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

It provides device detection, device handling, input device event processing and abstraction to minimize the amount of custom input code the user of libinput needs to provide the common set of functionality that users expect.

This package includes the shared library. 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: libinput10 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.15.5-1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: libinput Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 344 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libevdev2 (>= 1.3), libmtdev1 (>= 1.1.0), libudev1 (>= 183), libwacom2 (>= 1.1), libinput-bin (>= 1.15.5-1) Filename: pool/main/libi/libinput/libinput10_1.15.5-1_amd64.deb Size: 111768 MD5sum: d3a97b0f36ef5e622bfea97fd812cc25 SHA1: d40722098557fef7244ba091d952bb1847b6ad3d SHA256: 4175ad611c4fa38828ff72d1fff9ec7c111b2c2cb4680363da7880504df6eabb Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/ Description-en: input device management and event handling library - shared library libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.

There are three methods to install libinput10 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 libinput10 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libinput10 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libinput10

Install libinput10 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libinput10 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libinput10

Install libinput10 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 libinput10 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libinput10

How To Uninstall libinput10 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libinput10 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libinput10

Uninstall libinput10 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libinput10 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libinput10

Remove libinput10 Configurations and Data

To remove libinput10 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libinput10

Remove libinput10 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libinput10 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libinput10

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libinput10 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.