How To Install libwayland-egl1 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-egl1
on Debian 11.
What is libwayland-egl1
libwayland-egl1 is:
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
This package ships the library that implements the Wayland EGL platform of the Wayland protocol.
There are three methods to install libwayland-egl1
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libwayland-egl1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libwayland-egl1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwayland-egl1
Install libwayland-egl1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwayland-egl1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwayland-egl1
Install libwayland-egl1 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 libwayland-egl1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwayland-egl1
How To Uninstall libwayland-egl1 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libwayland-egl1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwayland-egl1
Uninstall libwayland-egl1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwayland-egl1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwayland-egl1
Remove libwayland-egl1 Configurations and Data
To remove libwayland-egl1
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwayland-egl1
Remove libwayland-egl1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwayland-egl1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwayland-egl1
Dependencies
libwayland-egl1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-egl1
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.