How To Install xserver-xorg-video-ati on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-ati on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xserver-xorg-video-ati
xserver-xorg-video-ati is:
This package provides the ‘ati’ driver for the AMD/ATI Mach64, Rage128, Radeon, FireGL, FireMV, FirePro and FireStream series. This driver is actually a wrapper that loads one of the ‘mach64’, ‘r128’ or ‘radeon’ sub-drivers depending on the hardware. These sub-drivers are brought through package dependencies.
Users of Rage, Mach, or Radeon boards may remove this package only if they use Driver “r128”, “mach64”, or “radeon” in /etc/X11/xorg.conf instead of relying on autodetection.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:http://www.X.org
This package is built from the X.org xf86-video-ati driver module.
There are three methods to install xserver-xorg-video-ati 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 xserver-xorg-video-ati Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-ati using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati
Install xserver-xorg-video-ati Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-video-ati using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati
Install xserver-xorg-video-ati 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 xserver-xorg-video-ati using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-video-ati
How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xserver-xorg-video-ati package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-ati
Uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xserver-xorg-video-ati and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg-video-ati
Remove xserver-xorg-video-ati Configurations and Data
To remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg-video-ati
Remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg-video-ati configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg-video-ati
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-video-ati package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
