How to Install and Uninstall libinput-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 03,2024

1. Install "libinput-dev" package

Please follow the instructions below to install libinput-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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 step by step instructions below to uninstall libinput-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libinput-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.18.1-1
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 (= 1.18.1-1), libmtdev-dev (>= 1.1.0), libudev-dev, libevdev-dev (>= 1.10.0), libwacom-dev (>= 0.20)
Filename: pool/main/libi/libinput/libinput-dev_1.18.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 29924
MD5sum: c5c083c0efebce16dc90719729230f33
SHA1: 4db4f076a8d49dfb8b1d1612b65fbca62f2e91ec
SHA256: 524f4a0cda904db6a02dfe93932d7754f0d3ef2cf009babeb61f1400448912c5
SHA512: b40de9ac3626c3ef08e3191d02b50bf076db3f609a4302d54f25d44a389046a4ad98cc9094125bae6bf76c9cb2a2e3493b6d605a2f8a8d87bdcc05854e7187c9
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