How To Install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04. glew-utils is OpenGL Extension Wrangler - utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is glew-utils

glew-utils is:

For more information about GLEW please refer to the description of the libglew-dev package.

This package contains the utilities which can be used to query the supported OpenGL extensions. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

There are three methods to install glew-utils 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 glew-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 glew-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install glew-utils

Install glew-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glew-utils

Install glew-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 glew-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glew-utils

How To Uninstall glew-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the glew-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove glew-utils

Uninstall glew-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall glew-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glew-utils

Remove glew-utils Configurations and Data

To remove glew-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge glew-utils

Remove glew-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glew-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install glew-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.