How to Install and Uninstall weston Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 06,2024

1. Install "weston" package

This is a short guide on how to install weston 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 "weston" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall weston on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: weston
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 3585
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.9.0-3
Depends: adduser, libegl1-mesa (>= 8.0-2) | libegl1-x11, libwayland-egl1-mesa (>= 10.1.0-2) | libwayland-egl1, libgles2-mesa (>= 8.0-2) | libgles2, libc6 (>= 2.17), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcolord2 (>= 0.1.29), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.31), libgbm1 (>= 8.1~0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libinput10 (>= 0.15.0), libjpeg8 (>= 8c), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpixman-1-0 (>= 0.30.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsystemd0, libudev1 (>= 183), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.9.0), libwayland-cursor0 (>= 1.9.0), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.9.0), libx11-6, libx11-xcb1, libxcb-composite0, libxcb-render0, libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb-xkb1, libxcb1 (>= 1.8), libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0)
Recommends: libgl1-mesa-dri
Filename: pool/universe/w/weston/weston_1.9.0-3_amd64.deb
Size: 838166
MD5sum: 7fc81a374b6666025cfed87b51241370
SHA1: a322ab98440c5d9e50a11f6375954ba5f5ca8aea
SHA256: 54d640ee033338d7f52d1898b9cdf1d641659e54b970ff7885d507c4fd80f73c
Description-en: reference implementation of a wayland compositor
Part of the Wayland project is also the Weston reference implementation
of a Wayland compositor. Weston can run as an X client or under Linux
KMS and ships with a few demo clients. The Weston compositor is a minimal
and fast compositor and is suitable for many embedded and mobile use
cases.
Description-md5: a6199b5b4d9e6a3de92c2ec580664e79
Homepage: http://wayland.freedesktop.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu