How to Install and Uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "mesa-vulkan-drivers" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install mesa-vulkan-drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mesa-vulkan-drivers" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall mesa-vulkan-drivers on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mesa-vulkan-drivers
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mesa-vulkan-drivers package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mesa-vulkan-drivers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: mesa
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 5211
Depends: libvulkan1, libc6 (>= 2.17), libdrm-amdgpu1 (>= 2.4.89), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libelf1 (>= 0.142), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libllvm6.0 (>= 1:6.0~svn298832-1~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.11.0), libx11-xcb1, libxcb-dri3-0, libxcb-present0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxshmfence1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Filename: pool/universe/m/mesa/mesa-vulkan-drivers_18.0.5-0ubuntu0~16.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 1283378
MD5sum: 624260ecae5a01ad6a4a090a40e59042
SHA1: 9fca71c44655654aaa1323200c207ec625e56177
SHA256: 7229ac2de384c8cfe22724c56b7fe1fc367f3912611ce4833b90026b4bf56687
SHA512: 3a0e5406cf4716817772638b22ac9c13eed4ccd10a6864badafab74fccbf1d274ba9291712615209049a45f4f310bbf8c5358e96648773a378258d3f89d822ec
Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/
Description-en: Mesa Vulkan graphics drivers
Vulkan is a low-overhead 3D graphics and compute API. This package
includes Vulkan drivers provided by the Mesa project.
Description-md5: de68f7559174261711b175701783338c