How To Install vulkan-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-tools on Ubuntu 22.04. vulkan-tools is Miscellaneous Vulkan utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-tools on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is vulkan-tools

vulkan-tools is:

This package provides utilities for Vulkan, including vulkaninfo.

There are three methods to install vulkan-tools 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 vulkan-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install vulkan-tools

Install vulkan-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vulkan-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vulkan-tools

Install vulkan-tools 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 vulkan-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vulkan-tools

How To Uninstall vulkan-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the vulkan-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vulkan-tools

Uninstall vulkan-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vulkan-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vulkan-tools

Remove vulkan-tools Configurations and Data

To remove vulkan-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vulkan-tools

Remove vulkan-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vulkan-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vulkan-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vulkan-tools package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.