How To Install libxatracker2 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxatracker2 on Ubuntu 20.04. libxatracker2 is X acceleration library – runtime X acceleration library – runtime X acceleration library – runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxatracker2 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `libxatracker2`

libxatracker2 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. 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: libxatracker2 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 5931 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: mesa Version: 20.2.6-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdrm-nouveau2 (>= 2.4.66), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libllvm11 (>= 1:9~svn298832-1~), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libzstd1 (>= 1.3.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Description-en: X acceleration library – runtime 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. Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/

Package: libxatracker2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 20.0.4-2ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs 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: 6096 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29), libdrm-nouveau2 (>= 2.4.66), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libllvm9 (>= 1:9~svn298832-1~), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libzstd1 (>= 1.3.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Filename: pool/main/m/mesa/libxatracker2_20.0.4-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1578464 MD5sum: 4c544a683226ee7ac7ffde5f8dd15f8b SHA1: 89b59fa1daa52111c8d45b02ae21cb329464b8ed SHA256: 7ba3cd2d4bc7319ffa230e2b0ec136d5117485c5d67f859a6dbbe5a5c662b47d Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/ Description-en: X acceleration library – runtime This package contains the XA (X acceleration) library. It is used exclusively by the X server to do render, copy and video acceleration.

There are three methods to install libxatracker2 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 libxatracker2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libxatracker2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxatracker2

Install libxatracker2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxatracker2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxatracker2

Install libxatracker2 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 libxatracker2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxatracker2

How To Uninstall libxatracker2 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libxatracker2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxatracker2

Uninstall libxatracker2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxatracker2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxatracker2

Remove libxatracker2 Configurations and Data

To remove libxatracker2 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxatracker2

Remove libxatracker2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxatracker2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxatracker2

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxatracker2 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.