How To Install mesa-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mesa-utils
mesa-utils is:
This package provides several basic GL utilities built by Mesa, including glxinfo and glxgears.
There are three methods to install mesa-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mesa-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mesa-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mesa-utils
Install mesa-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mesa-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mesa-utils
Install mesa-utils 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 mesa-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mesa-utils
How To Uninstall mesa-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mesa-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mesa-utils
Uninstall mesa-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mesa-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mesa-utils
Remove mesa-utils Configurations and Data
To remove mesa-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mesa-utils
Remove mesa-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mesa-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mesa-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mesa-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.