How To Install libxshmfence1 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence1
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libxshmfence1
libxshmfence1 is:
This library provides an interface to shared-memory fences for synchronization between the X server and direct-rendering clients.
This package contains the xshmfence shared library. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libxshmfence1
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 libxshmfence1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libxshmfence1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxshmfence1
Install libxshmfence1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxshmfence1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxshmfence1
Install libxshmfence1 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 libxshmfence1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxshmfence1
How To Uninstall libxshmfence1 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libxshmfence1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxshmfence1
Uninstall libxshmfence1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxshmfence1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxshmfence1
Remove libxshmfence1 Configurations and Data
To remove libxshmfence1
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxshmfence1
Remove libxshmfence1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxshmfence1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxshmfence1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxshmfence1
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.