How To Install vulkan-utils on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-utils
on Debian 9.
What is vulkan-utils
vulkan-utils is:
This package provides utilities for Vulkan, including vulkaninfo.
There are three methods to install vulkan-utils
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vulkan-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vulkan-utils
Install vulkan-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vulkan-utils
Install vulkan-utils 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vulkan-utils
How To Uninstall vulkan-utils on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vulkan-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vulkan-utils
Uninstall vulkan-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vulkan-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vulkan-utils
Remove vulkan-utils Configurations and Data
To remove vulkan-utils
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vulkan-utils
Remove vulkan-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vulkan-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vulkan-utils
Dependencies
vulkan-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-utils
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.