How to Install and Uninstall libinput-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "libinput-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libinput-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libinput-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libinput-dev" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall libinput-dev on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libinput-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libinput-dev package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: libinput-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.16.4-3ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: extra
Section: libdevel
Source: libinput
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 208
Depends: libinput10 (= 1.16.4-3ubuntu2), libmtdev-dev (>= 1.1.0), libudev-dev, libevdev-dev (>= 1.10.0), libwacom-dev (>= 0.20)
Filename: pool/main/libi/libinput/libinput-dev_1.16.4-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 29668
MD5sum: ffdad2231dd57a8312b1bf5ad477e1ef
SHA1: a6397406063bbd8088a08198c77e1964d34ffce1
SHA256: 975e0131968901b6d98257098feee3a04de4085974fa0e7550fb8bc9df99db5e
SHA512: 9e867c474563c02c1c5d88e13c0078cdec2d44273cd8ce53541b64ffd6ad566ad2a9890e623b4efc2e47ea81d0534f6c08518468fb8dea77e4ce66e2970656b2
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
Description-en: input device management and event handling library - development files
libinput is a library that handles input devices for display servers and
other applications that need to directly deal with input devices.
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It provides device detection, device handling, input device event
processing and abstraction to minimize the amount of custom input
code the user of libinput needs to provide the common set of
functionality that users expect.
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This package includes the development headers.
Description-md5: 0da11dbc46194145e73a7af186713bda