How To Install libmutter-6-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-6-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmutter-6-dev
libmutter-6-dev is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the development files.
Package: libmutter-6-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: mutter Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 6525 Depends: gir1.2-mutter-6 (= 3.36.1-3ubuntu3), gsettings-desktop-schemas-dev (>= 3.33.0), libatk1.0-dev, libcairo2-dev, libdrm-dev, libegl1-mesa-dev, libgbm-dev, libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev, libgles2-mesa-dev (>= 7.1~rc3-1~) | libgles2-dev, libglib2.0-dev, libgraphene-1.0-dev (>= 1.9.3), libgtk-3-dev, libinput-dev (>= 1.7), libjson-glib-dev, libmutter-6-0 (= 3.36.1-3ubuntu3), libpango1.0-dev, libudev-dev, libwayland-dev, libx11-dev, libxcomposite-dev, libxdamage-dev, libxext-dev, libxfixes-dev, libxi-dev, libxrandr-dev Conflicts: libmutter-0-dev, libmutter-1-dev, libmutter-2-dev Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/libmutter-6-dev_3.36.1-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 480748 MD5sum: 0f0114b05a1aadf3309b9c37dd01559f SHA1: 89e046488c003b2712b3bf84a11b73ca22617bc2 SHA256: 8d1ce872cbcca3c2981951b58fdc1c80916dae24705ea15d73c14050bcf69abf Description-en: Development files for the Mutter window manager Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libmutter-6-dev 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 libmutter-6-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-6-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmutter-6-dev
Install libmutter-6-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-6-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmutter-6-dev
Install libmutter-6-dev 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 libmutter-6-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmutter-6-dev
How To Uninstall libmutter-6-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmutter-6-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmutter-6-dev
Uninstall libmutter-6-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmutter-6-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmutter-6-dev
Remove libmutter-6-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libmutter-6-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmutter-6-dev
Remove libmutter-6-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmutter-6-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmutter-6-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-6-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.