{"id":7456,"date":"2018-01-27T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7456"},"modified":"2018-01-29T09:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T09:38:34","slug":"how-to-install-mesa-17-3-3-in-ubuntu-16-04-17-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/how-to-install-mesa-17-3-3-in-ubuntu-16-04-17-10\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install MESA 17.3.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10"},"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 MESA 3D graphics library 17.3.3 now is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/ubuntu\/updates\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu-X team PPA<\/a> repository for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.10.<\/p>\n<p>MESA 17.3.3 is a bug-fix release announced a week ago. It fixed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dota crashes when switching from game to desktop<\/li>\n<li>Compute Shader: Wrong alignment when assigning struct value to structured SSBO<\/li>\n<li>Check if Mako templates for Python are installed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesa3d.org\/relnotes\/17.3.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Mesa 17.3.3 in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.10 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 dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p>3. To check result, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">glxinfo | grep \"OpenGL version\"<\/pre>\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 MESA 3D graphics library 17.3.3 now is available in Ubuntu-X team PPA repository for Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 17.10. MESA 17.3.3 is a bug-fix release announced a week ago. It fixed: Dota crashes when switching from game to desktop Compute Shader: Wrong alignment when assigning struct value to structured SSBO Check if Mako [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mesa-3d-graphics-library"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","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=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}