How To Install glmark2 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glmark2
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is glmark2
glmark2 is:
A benchmark for OpenGL (ES) 2.0 that uses only the OpenGL ES 2.0 compatible API. It contains tests for standard OpenGL (ES) 2.0 features, such as vertex arrays, VBOs, texturing and shaders.
This package contains the OpenGL 2.0 variant of the benchmark for X11.
There are three methods to install glmark2
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 glmark2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glmark2
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glmark2
Install glmark2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glmark2
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glmark2
Install glmark2 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 glmark2
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glmark2
How To Uninstall glmark2 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the glmark2
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glmark2
Uninstall glmark2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glmark2
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glmark2
Remove glmark2 Configurations and Data
To remove glmark2
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glmark2
Remove glmark2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glmark2
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glmark2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glmark2
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.