How To Install libglu1-mesa on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libglu1-mesa on Debian 10.
What is libglu1-mesa
libglu1-mesa is:
GLU offers simple interfaces for building mipmaps; checking for the presence of extensions in the OpenGL (or other libraries which follow the same conventions for advertising extensions); drawing piecewise-linear curves, NURBS, quadrics and other primitives (including, but not limited to, teapots); tesselating surfaces; setting up projection matrices and unprojecting screen coordinates to world coordinates.
On Linux, this library is also known as libGLU or libGLU.so.1.
This package provides the SGI implementation of GLU provided by the Mesa project (ergo the “-mesa” suffix).
There are three methods to install libglu1-mesa on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libglu1-mesa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libglu1-mesa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libglu1-mesa
Install libglu1-mesa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libglu1-mesa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libglu1-mesa
Install libglu1-mesa 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libglu1-mesa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libglu1-mesa
How To Uninstall libglu1-mesa on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libglu1-mesa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libglu1-mesa
Uninstall libglu1-mesa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libglu1-mesa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libglu1-mesa
Remove libglu1-mesa Configurations and Data
To remove libglu1-mesa configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libglu1-mesa
Remove libglu1-mesa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libglu1-mesa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libglu1-mesa
Dependencies
libglu1-mesa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libglu1-mesa package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.