How To Install mangohud on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mangohud on Ubuntu.
What is mangohud
mangohud is:
A modification of the Mesa Vulkan overlay, including GUI improvements with HUD configuration, temperature reporting, and logging capabilities. Includes a script (mangohud) to start it on any OpenGL or Vulkan application. To get data for Nvidia GPUs, you need to install libxnvctrl0.
There are three methods to install mangohud on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mangohud Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mangohud using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mangohud
Install mangohud Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mangohud using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mangohud
Install mangohud 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.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mangohud using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mangohud
How To Uninstall mangohud on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mangohud package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mangohud
Uninstall mangohud And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mangohud and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mangohud
Remove mangohud Configurations and Data
To remove mangohud configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mangohud
Remove mangohud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mangohud configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mangohud
Dependencies
mangohud have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mangohud package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.