How To Install glmark2 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glmark2 on Ubuntu 20.04.
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.
Package: glmark2 Architecture: amd64 Version: 2014.03+git20150611.fa71af2d-0ubuntu7 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Alexandros Frantzis [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1061 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.27), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgl1, libjpeg8 (>= 8c), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libx11-6, glmark2-data (= 2014.03+git20150611.fa71af2d-0ubuntu7) Filename: pool/universe/g/glmark2/glmark2_2014.03+git20150611.fa71af2d-0ubuntu7_amd64.deb Size: 294140 MD5sum: 32c4339fd7768ccdf7887013010f0faf SHA1: 0f03b3b21668650364f9d6ee05786d0fb3a14489 SHA256: 9c79d7c098fb3ada284a12e0db510cb414ee9a468fd30bce0e27cb92f73ce33a Homepage: https://launchpad.net/glmark2 Description-en: OpenGL 2.0 X11 benchmark 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 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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glmark2 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.