How To Install libdrm-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-tests on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libdrm-tests
libdrm-tests 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 contains a variety of tools for testing from the libdrm project.
There are three methods to install libdrm-tests 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 libdrm-tests 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-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libdrm-tests
Install libdrm-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libdrm-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libdrm-tests
Install libdrm-tests 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-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libdrm-tests
How To Uninstall libdrm-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libdrm-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libdrm-tests
Uninstall libdrm-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libdrm-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libdrm-tests
Remove libdrm-tests Configurations and Data
To remove libdrm-tests configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libdrm-tests
Remove libdrm-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libdrm-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libdrm-tests
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libdrm-tests package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
