How To Install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 is:
This package provides original Debian (with Debian patches already applied, and autotools files updated) sources for the X.Org (‘Xorg’) X server shipped in a tarball. This enables other projects re-using X server codebase (e.g. VNC servers) to (re-)use officially Debian-supported version of the X xserver for their builds.
Unless you are building a software product using X server sources, you probably want xserver-xorg and/or xserver-xorg-core instead.
There are three methods to install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
Install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
Install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 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 xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
How To Uninstall xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
Uninstall xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
Remove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 Configurations and Data
To remove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
Remove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-server-source-hwe-18.04
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.