How to Install and Uninstall libxext6 Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 25,2024

1. Install "libxext6" package

Please follow the steps below to install libxext6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libxext6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libxext6" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libxext6 on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libxext6
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libxext6 package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libxext6
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:1.3.4-0ubuntu3
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: standard
Section: libs
Source: libxext
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 110
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.6.0)
Filename: pool/main/libx/libxext/libxext6_1.3.4-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 28936
MD5sum: 0dc2cf54d4e17a0f03121be5ae473c54
SHA1: b6325aa2928bed31aff7ae9aae952ec6a0e2d681
SHA256: 17be630aef1ee0c5f6258dfc6d7058e00293a76b40f2a474a40c05dcaa61931e
SHA512: 3c16c245ed0a3d7b24be800fb7464e6f7cf2267ca9c54278ddcc1c8c267053afba41016d859bc5af5f40abeb7cce9183c0e782859da6d06875d78b7cac423fe3
Description-en: X11 miscellaneous extension library
libXext provides an X Window System client interface to several extensions to
the X protocol.
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The supported protocol extensions are:
- DOUBLE-BUFFER (DBE), the Double Buffer extension;
- DPMS, the VESA Display Power Management System extension;
- Extended-Visual-Information (EVI), an extension for gathering extra
information about the X server's visuals;
- LBX, the Low Bandwidth X extension;
- MIT-SHM, the MIT X client/server shared memory extension;
- MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD, a miscellaneous extension by MIT;
- Multi-Buffering, the multi-buffering and stereo display extension;
- SECURITY, the X security extension;
- SHAPE, the non-rectangular shaped window extension;
- SYNC, the X synchronization extension;
- TOG-CUP, the Open Group's Colormap Utilization extension;
- XC-APPGROUP, the X Consortium's Application Group extension;
- XC-MISC, the X Consortium's resource ID querying extension;
- XTEST, the X test extension (this is one of two client-side
implementations; the other is in the libXtst library, provided by the
libxtst6 package);
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libXext also provides a small set of utility functions to aid authors of
client APIs for X protocol extensions.
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More information about X.Org can be found at:

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This module can be found at
git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXext
Description-md5: 5c72cf7a13b0990666898813406a2a89
Task: standard