{"id":7246,"date":"2017-10-17T11:47:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2017-10-17T11:47:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T11:47:20","slug":"mesa-17-2-2-available-ubuntu-16-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/10\/mesa-17-2-2-available-ubuntu-16-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"MESA 17.2.2 Is Now Available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/opengl-logo245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6802\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest release of Mesa graphics library 17.2.2 is now available for users of Ubuntu 16.04 to install via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Mesa 17.2.2 is a bug-fix release for the 17.2 series. It was released two weeks ago and finally available in the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/ubuntu\/updates\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cUbuntu-X\u201d team PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu 16.04.<\/p>\n<p>Mesa 17.2 contains many RADV\/ANV Vulkan driver improvements, Vulkan and OpenGL performance improvements, more work towards OpenGL 4.6 compliance, and a wealth of other open-source driver improvements. <\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Mesa 17.2.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 via PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>1. Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcuts or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mesa-ppa-600x92.jpg\" alt=\"Mesa ppa\" width=\"600\" height=\"92\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mesa-ppa-600x92.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mesa-ppa-450x69.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/mesa-ppa.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Then refresh your system and install upgrades via commands:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>3. To check result, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">glxinfo | grep \"OpenGL version\"<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/check-mesa17-2-600x68.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"68\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/check-mesa17-2-600x68.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/check-mesa17-2-450x51.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/check-mesa17-2.jpg 745w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Restore:<\/h4>\n<p>To revert back to the original Mesa 3D graphics library in Ubuntu, get into command console and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest release of Mesa graphics library 17.2.2 is now available for users of Ubuntu 16.04 to install via PPA. Mesa 17.2.2 is a bug-fix release for the 17.2 series. It was released two weeks ago and finally available in the \u201cUbuntu-X\u201d team PPA for Ubuntu 16.04. Mesa 17.2 contains many RADV\/ANV Vulkan driver improvements, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1447,1448],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-mesa-3d-graphics-library","tag-mesa-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}