How To Install libwayland-egl1 on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-egl1 on Debian 11. libwayland-egl1 is wayland compositor infrastructure - EGL library

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.