How To Install weston on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weston on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is weston
weston is:
Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use cases.
There are three methods to install weston on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install weston Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install weston using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weston
Install weston Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weston using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weston
Install weston 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 weston using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weston
How To Uninstall weston on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the weston package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weston
Uninstall weston And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weston and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weston
Remove weston Configurations and Data
To remove weston configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weston
Remove weston configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weston configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weston
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weston package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
