How To Install weston-smoke on Ubuntu 21.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install weston

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is weston-smoke and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 21.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 21.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install weston-smoke on Ubuntu 21.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install weston-smoke using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install weston-smoke using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install weston

Install weston-smoke using apt

Because weston-smoke is available in Ubuntu 21.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install weston-smoke using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install weston

Install weston-smoke using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu 21.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install weston-smoke by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install weston

How to upgrade (update) a single package weston-smoke using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the weston-smoke, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install weston

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install weston

How To Uninstall weston-smoke from Ubuntu 21.04

To uninstall only the weston-smoke package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove weston

Uninstall weston-smoke and all its dependencies

To uninstall weston-smoke and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 21.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove weston

Remove weston-smoke with all configurations and data

To remove weston-smoke configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge weston

Remove weston-smoke completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to weston-smoke package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weston

Extra info and code examples

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.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install weston-smoke using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the weston-smoke from Ubuntu 21.04.

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