How To Install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is glew-utils
glew-utils is:
For more information about GLEW please refer to the description of the libglew-dev package.
This package contains the utilities which can be used to query the supported OpenGL extensions. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install glew-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glew-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glew-utils
Install glew-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glew-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glew-utils
Install glew-utils 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 glew-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glew-utils
How To Uninstall glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the glew-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glew-utils
Uninstall glew-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glew-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glew-utils
Remove glew-utils Configurations and Data
To remove glew-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glew-utils
Remove glew-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glew-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glew-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.