How To Install driconf on Debian 10

Learn how to install driconf on Debian 10 with this tutorial. driconf is DRI configuration applet

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install driconf on Debian 10.

What is driconf

driconf is:

Driconf is a configuration applet for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI). It allows customizing performance and visual quality settings of OpenGL drivers on a per-driver, per-screen and/or per-application level.

Driconf is implemented in Python. It uses the GTK+ toolkit bindings and the xdriinfo program (from the xdriinfo or xbase-clients package) to retrieve configuration information from OpenGL drivers.

There are three methods to install driconf on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install driconf Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install driconf

Install driconf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install driconf

Install driconf 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 driconf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install driconf

How To Uninstall driconf on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove driconf

Uninstall driconf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall driconf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove driconf

Remove driconf Configurations and Data

To remove driconf configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge driconf

Remove driconf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge driconf

Dependencies

driconf have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install driconf package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.