- How To Install xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
- Introduction
- What is xserver-xorg-dev
- Install xserver-xorg-dev Using apt-get
- Install xserver-xorg-dev Using apt
- Install xserver-xorg-dev Using aptitude
- How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
- Uninstall xserver-xorg-dev And Its Dependencies
- Remove xserver-xorg-dev Configurations and Data
- Remove xserver-xorg-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
- References
- Summary
- Install xserver on linux
- Current Status
- Version numbers
- Installing Xorg
- Configure X
- Edit xorg.conf
- How can I edit my xorg config file?
- What if I do not have a xorg config file?
- Run X
- How To Install xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04
- What is xserver-xorg
- Install xserver-xorg Using apt-get
- Install xserver-xorg Using apt
- Install xserver-xorg Using aptitude
- How To Uninstall xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04
- Uninstall xserver-xorg And Its Dependencies
- Remove xserver-xorg Configurations and Data
- Remove xserver-xorg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
- References
- Summary
How To Install xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. xserver-xorg-dev is Xorg X server — development files c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033 Xorg X server — development files c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033 Xorg X server — development files c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xserver-xorg-dev
This package provides development files for the X.Org (‘Xorg’) X server. This is not quite the same as the DDK (Driver Development Kit) from the XFree86 4.x and X.Org 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9 series of servers; it provides headers and a pkg-config file for drivers using autotools to build against.
Unless you are developing or building a driver, you probably want xserver-xorg and/or xserver-xorg-core instead.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module. Description-md5: c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033
Package: xserver-xorg-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2 Priority: optional Section: x11 Source: xorg-server Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1441 Depends: libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.27.2), x11proto-dev (>= 2018.4), libxfont-dev, libxkbfile-dev, libpciaccess-dev, mesa-common-dev Filename: pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-dev_1.20.9-2ubuntu1.2~20.04.2_amd64.deb Size: 200908 MD5sum: 2641e88c8d366cf700ea878ab621e914 SHA1: ef404faf1b1359026d352efa9d971bf6e3383fd7 SHA256: f4b5c9ac81348bab20396608a8ab4c15d5ca6cebee8b7f807672dc804a195aba SHA512: 445fced3144d531351f97959a96bfcaac9f4ed2e3b530b4883f16053dbc1cd69d48413ff47f8db2a398e34aa04c5b34bd3254e6c4cbc6e9b061a4d6a37094b0c Homepage: https://www.x.org/ Description-en: Xorg X server — development files This package provides development files for the X.Org (‘Xorg’) X server. This is not quite the same as the DDK (Driver Development Kit) from the XFree86 4.x and X.Org 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9 series of servers; it provides headers and a pkg-config file for drivers using autotools to build against.
Unless you are developing or building a driver, you probably want xserver-xorg and/or xserver-xorg-core instead.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module. Description-md5: c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033
Package: xserver-xorg-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 2:1.20.8-2ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: x11 Source: xorg-server Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu X-SWAT [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1439 Depends: libpixman-1-dev (>= 0.27.2), x11proto-dev (>= 2018.4), libxfont-dev, libxkbfile-dev, libpciaccess-dev, mesa-common-dev Filename: pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-dev_1.20.8-2ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 200416 MD5sum: 5c5f4b65c532d1e22bf69eaad82f2049 SHA1: 4b0dc5c97cca7bbf953b63e8c0b207c89d10799a SHA256: 63b4123cac5b8fafa8bfa7ab7998c1319ae8e1838af75905b589251b7038c51a Homepage: https://www.x.org/ Description-en: Xorg X server — development files This package provides development files for the X.Org (‘Xorg’) X server. This is not quite the same as the DDK (Driver Development Kit) from the XFree86 4.x and X.Org 6.7, 6.8 and 6.9 series of servers; it provides headers and a pkg-config file for drivers using autotools to build against.
Unless you are developing or building a driver, you probably want xserver-xorg and/or xserver-xorg-core instead.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.x.org
This package is built from the X.org xserver module. Description-md5: c5425cbd8103a5899200596c7a3c3033
There are three ways to install xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get , apt and aptitude . In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xserver-xorg-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-dev
Install xserver-xorg-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg-dev
Install xserver-xorg-dev 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. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg-dev
How To Uninstall xserver-xorg-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xserver-xorg-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-dev
Uninstall xserver-xorg-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xserver-xorg-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg-dev
Remove xserver-xorg-dev Configurations and Data
To remove xserver-xorg-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg-dev
Remove xserver-xorg-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
Install xserver on linux
Xorg is the default X Window server since Debian 4.0 (etch). It replaces XFree86 and is maintained in Debian by the XStrikeForce. For Debian 10 and later, the default human interface protocol is Wayland.
Current Status
The current versions shipped in Debian are listed on packages.debian.org: xorg, xserver-xorg-core.
Version numbers
Xorg version numbering has changed since xorg 7.0. Nowadays, Xorg is released with a version number (like 7.4). This release is composed of various modules which have their own version number (each module started at version «1.0» when Xorg 7.0 development cycle started). For instance, Xorg 7.3 was shipped with Xserver version v1.4, xf86-input-evdev v1.1.5, xf86-video-intel v2.1.1, etc.. If you want to learn more about Xorg releases/versions, see this blog.
Debian version number follows upstream convention. The module’s version may be different (The maintainers sometimes cherry-pick more recent and stable modules). Reminder: Debian package version sometimes starts with a digit followed by a column, like 1:7.3.1-2. That part (1:) is Debian-specific. Also, anything after the dash (-2) is the Debian packaging version.
Installing Xorg
Installing Xorg is simple as:
or for just the X11 server itself without drivers and utilities:
$ sudo apt install xserver-xorg-core
Note that with the latter you won’t have the startx command (provided by bin:xinit but if you install it directly it’ll pull all video drivers) and therefore will have troubles to start any graphical display.
If you wish to have a proper graphic session starter, you should consider running
$ sudo apt install xserver-xorg-video-xxx xserver-xorg-core xinit
where xxx is to be replaced by the name of your video driver.
Configure X
To reconfigure keyboard settings in Squeeze (and later) run as root in a terminal:
# dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
Edit xorg.conf
Some settings are only accessible through editing xorg.conf by hand.
How can I edit my xorg config file?
Open a terminal (or console) as root, then run :
What if I do not have a xorg config file?
If xorg.conf is missing for some reason, Xorg will probe your hardware on every startup. Though this works fine in most cases, some settings remain inaccessible. To create a starting point for customization, do the following.
Switch to a console as root (not a terminal emulator in X), then run:
# /etc/init.d/gdm stop || /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop || /etc/init.d/kdm stop || /etc/init.d/xdm stop || /etc/init.d/lightdm stop $ cd /etc/X11/ # Xorg -configure
Alternatively, reboot the machine in single user mode, then run:
$ cd /etc/X11/ # Xorg -configure
Follow the on-screen instructions. This should give you something to work with.
Question: what should be done if generating this file fails, giving the message, ‘Number of created screens does not match the number of detected devices’?
Anyway, probably, this is unnecessary. Per this comment and this advice, it seems best to create the directory /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and place in it a few files in order to tweak sections of the implicit xorg.conf, as for example is done here.
Xorg reads vendor configuration information from the directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, as stated by man xorg.conf.d.
Rather than in xorg.conf, another quite useful way to adjust X settings is on the fly, in a desktop environment’s list of scripts to run at startup.
Run X
After installation a user can create an X session with startx, a front end to xinit.
The user session can be configured by the content of ~/.xsessionrc. Screen layout and settings can be set with a xrandr command.
$ cat .xsessionrc xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --primary --mode 1600x900 --rate 59.98 --output VGA-1 --mode 1280x1024 --rate 75.02 --right-of DVI-I-1
Alternatively, root can start a display manager such as kdm, lightdm gdm, gdm3 or xdm.
The display manager is available to multiple users.
How To Install xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xserver-xorg
This package depends on the full suite of the server and drivers for the X.Org X server. It does not provide the actual server itself. Description-md5: 3d8c1d268e8af6b69f54d86fbd5a3939 Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three ways to install xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get , apt and aptitude . In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xserver-xorg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xserver-xorg
Install xserver-xorg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xserver-xorg
Install xserver-xorg 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. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install xserver-xorg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xserver-xorg
How To Uninstall xserver-xorg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xserver-xorg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg
Uninstall xserver-xorg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xserver-xorg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xserver-xorg
Remove xserver-xorg Configurations and Data
To remove xserver-xorg configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xserver-xorg
Remove xserver-xorg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xserver-xorg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xserver-xorg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xserver-xorg package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.