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

Last updated: November 22,2024

1. Install "libinput-tools" package

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


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

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libinput-tools on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


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

Package: libinput-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.16.4-3ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: allowed
Priority: extra
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: libinput
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 758
Depends: libinput10 (= 1.16.4-3ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.33), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libevdev2 (>= 1.10.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.30.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libudev1 (>= 183), python3, python3-libevdev, python3-pyudev
Filename: pool/universe/libi/libinput/libinput-tools_1.16.4-3ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 123284
MD5sum: 0552ace4d2560538cdfb2bca0249da31
SHA1: cbd75aa2c1bb5bdb406dc3fa7a47d025a963ae57
SHA256: 622dffd2699c1a8599219f7cfe0e72c3a2a9e7dae3a0bfc45a641bdf6433ea03
SHA512: 98edf8c2d362f8f5b1be574456271e49b820f8ef4656610ab32d6aa19702df1224eef430afbcb22f0811335487459ef8e99c62d22ffd70c8225c9c1a39131a91
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/libinput/
Description-en: input device management and event handling library - command line tools
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 command line tools.
Description-md5: f642a39a00586a04a50f0a346b1355d4