How To Install libdrm-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libdrm-common
libdrm-common is:
This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers.
This package provides common files for libdrm. Task: standard
Package: libdrm-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 41 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: all Multi-Arch: foreign Source: libdrm Version: 2.4.102-1ubuntu1~20.04.1 Description-en: Userspace interface to kernel DRM services – common files This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers.
This package provides common files for libdrm. Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Homepage: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/
Package: libdrm-common Architecture: all Version: 2.4.101-2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: standard Section: libs Source: libdrm Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 41 Filename: pool/main/libd/libdrm/libdrm-common_2.4.101-2_all.deb Size: 5540 MD5sum: 806f3535b725724058fd896ada65d316 SHA1: f4d7655c5eb00a036bd031ede4ebdcc39d8526de SHA256: fb5e29849ff773f15ecbfbe73634dd086292bd03607fde16c5cc4ed4449c9ccb Homepage: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/ Description-en: Userspace interface to kernel DRM services – common files This library implements the userspace interface to the kernel DRM services. DRM stands for “Direct Rendering Manager”, which is the kernelspace portion of the “Direct Rendering Infrastructure” (DRI). The DRI is currently used on Linux to provide hardware-accelerated OpenGL drivers.
This package provides common files for libdrm. Task: standard
There are three methods to install libdrm-common 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 libdrm-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdrm-common
Install libdrm-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdrm-common
Install libdrm-common 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 libdrm-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdrm-common
How To Uninstall libdrm-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libdrm-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdrm-common
Uninstall libdrm-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdrm-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrm-common
Remove libdrm-common Configurations and Data
To remove libdrm-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdrm-common
Remove libdrm-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdrm-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrm-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.