How To Install mangohud on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mangohud
on Debian 11.
What is mangohud
mangohud is:
A modification of the Mesa Vulkan overlay, including GUI improvements with HUD configuration, temperature reporting, and logging capabilities. Includes a script (mangohud) to start it on any OpenGL or Vulkan application. To get data for Nvidia GPUs, you need to install libxnvctrl0.
There are three methods to install mangohud
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mangohud Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mangohud
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mangohud
Install mangohud Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mangohud
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mangohud
Install mangohud 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 mangohud
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mangohud
How To Uninstall mangohud on Debian 11
To uninstall only the mangohud
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mangohud
Uninstall mangohud And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mangohud
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mangohud
Remove mangohud Configurations and Data
To remove mangohud
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mangohud
Remove mangohud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mangohud
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mangohud
Dependencies
mangohud have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mangohud
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.