How To Install xserver-xorg-video-ati on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-ati on Debian 9. xserver-xorg-video-ati is X.Org X server – AMD/ATI display driver wrapper

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-ati on Debian 9.

What is xserver-xorg-video-ati

xserver-xorg-video-ati is:

This package provides the ‘ati’ driver for the AMD/ATI Mach64, Rage128, Radeon, FireGL, FireMV, FirePro and FireStream series. This driver is actually a wrapper that loads one of the ‘mach64’, ‘r128’ or ‘radeon’ sub-drivers depending on the hardware. These sub-drivers are brought through package dependencies.

Users of Rage, Mach, or Radeon boards may remove this package only if they use Driver “r128”, “mach64”, or “radeon” in /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of relying on autodetection.

More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:http://www.X.org

This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-ati driver module.

There are three methods to install xserver-xorg-video-ati 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 xserver-xorg-video-ati Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-ati using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati

Install xserver-xorg-video-ati Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-ati using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati

Install xserver-xorg-video-ati 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 xserver-xorg-video-ati using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati

How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati on Debian 9

To uninstall only the xserver-xorg-video-ati package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-ati

Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati And Its Dependencies

To uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg-video-ati

Remove xserver-xorg-video-ati Configurations and Data

To remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg-video-ati

Remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati

Dependencies

xserver-xorg-video-ati have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-ati package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.