How To Install vulkan-validationlayers on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validationlayers
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is vulkan-validationlayers
vulkan-validationlayers is:
This project provides the Khronos official Vulkan validation layers.
This package includes the loader library.
There are three methods to install vulkan-validationlayers
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vulkan-validationlayers 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-validationlayers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vulkan-validationlayers
Install vulkan-validationlayers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-validationlayers
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vulkan-validationlayers
Install vulkan-validationlayers 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 vulkan-validationlayers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vulkan-validationlayers
How To Uninstall vulkan-validationlayers on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the vulkan-validationlayers
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vulkan-validationlayers
Uninstall vulkan-validationlayers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vulkan-validationlayers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vulkan-validationlayers
Remove vulkan-validationlayers Configurations and Data
To remove vulkan-validationlayers
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vulkan-validationlayers
Remove vulkan-validationlayers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vulkan-validationlayers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vulkan-validationlayers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-validationlayers
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.