How To Install libxatracker-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxatracker-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libxatracker-dev
libxatracker-dev is:
This package contains the XA (X acceleration) library. It is used exclusively by the X server to do render, copy and video acceleration.
XA is intended to be used by the vmware driver for virtualized X acceleration.
This package provides the development environment for compiling programs against the xatracker library.
Package: libxatracker-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 20.0.4-2ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libdevel Source: mesa Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 99 Depends: libxatracker2 (= 20.0.4-2ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/m/mesa/libxatracker-dev_20.0.4-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 8936 MD5sum: 1efa458fee92e878c20b4eef24e41577 SHA1: b793567c2db06d27c04eb8e984238e6118a94e36 SHA256: f86435a273e3133125cab9813f36b24a0fe264754ff276a086ef46effe242e60 Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/ Description-en: X acceleration library – development files This package contains the XA (X acceleration) library. It is used exclusively by the X server to do render, copy and video acceleration.
XA is intended to be used by the vmware driver for virtualized X acceleration.
This package provides the development environment for compiling programs against the xatracker library.
There are three methods to install libxatracker-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 libxatracker-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 libxatracker-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxatracker-dev
Install libxatracker-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxatracker-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxatracker-dev
Install libxatracker-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 libxatracker-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxatracker-dev
How To Uninstall libxatracker-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libxatracker-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxatracker-dev
Uninstall libxatracker-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxatracker-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxatracker-dev
Remove libxatracker-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libxatracker-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxatracker-dev
Remove libxatracker-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxatracker-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxatracker-dev
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxatracker-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
