How to Install and Uninstall weston Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: December 24,2024

1. Install "weston" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install weston on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "weston" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall weston on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                weston
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the weston package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: weston
Architecture: amd64
Version: 9.0.0-2~exp1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4237
Depends: adduser, libegl1-mesa (>= 8.0-2) | libegl1-x11, libgles2, libwayland-egl1 (>= 1.15.0), libc6 (>= 2.32), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcolord2 (>= 1.4.3), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.38), libegl1, libevdev2 (>= 0.9.1), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libinput10 (>= 1.4.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.30.0), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libsystemd0, libwayland-client0 (>= 1.12.0), libwayland-cursor0 (>= 1.12.0), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.12.0), libwebp6 (>= 0.5.1), libweston-9-0 (>= 9.0.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri
Filename: pool/universe/w/weston/weston_9.0.0-2~exp1_amd64.deb
Size: 827844
MD5sum: fffcdb21a6efadf06bd3d4698cc6aa38
SHA1: 35e434f1e1939216a4067f76bcd32f2abbd1c82d
SHA256: 451c3c9003817d206a51eea7c95b7e0b9c32026d7888340f94a161c063ede52a
SHA512: 72511dc73b3a60f9669fb6ceb14c0ff8485df818bdaca6e689a500ce1b53b594762d95877a570bc739fe3cca54ccb128e1d5a420ed503792d4aed8aa74814c40
Homepage: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Description-en: reference implementation of a wayland compositor
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.
Description-md5: a6199b5b4d9e6a3de92c2ec580664e79