{"id":9479,"date":"2019-10-25T14:51:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9479"},"modified":"2019-10-25T14:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:51:30","slug":"install-mesa-19-2-1-ubuntu-18-04-via-ppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/install-mesa-19-2-1-ubuntu-18-04-via-ppa\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Mesa 19.2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 via PPA"},"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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6802\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mesa 3D graphics library 19.2.1 now is finally made into PPA available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesa3d.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mesa<\/a> 19.2.x is the latest development series that features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mesa 19.2 now pretty much at parity or beyond the i965 OpenGL driver.<\/li>\n<li>OpenGL 4.6 support for the Intel OpenGL driver<\/li>\n<li>Radeon RX 5700 series (Navi 10) support in RADV and RadeonSI Vulkan\/OpenGL drivers.<\/li>\n<li>Initial Navi 12\/14 support. <\/li>\n<li>A big RADV performance boost for AMD GPUs. <\/li>\n<li>EGL platform device support. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Canonical&#8217;s Timo Aaltonen has made Mesa 19.2.1 package into <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntu-x-swat\/+archive\/ubuntu\/updates\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cUbuntu-X\u201d team PPA<\/a>, available to install in Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application menu. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/mesa-ppa-bionic.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> After adding the PPA, do system update via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get dist-upgrade<\/pre>\n<p><i><code>apt-get update<\/code> is not required any more in Ubuntu 18.04 since adding PPA automatically refreshes system package cache.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> Finally check your driver version via 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\/2019\/10\/mesa1921-600x101.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"101\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mesa1921-600x101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mesa1921-450x76.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/mesa1921.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall:<\/h4>\n<p>To restore changes and downgrade to the default drives shipped in Ubuntu 18.04, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat\/updates<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mesa 3D graphics library 19.2.1 now is finally made into PPA available to install in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Mesa 19.2.x is the latest development series that features: Mesa 19.2 now pretty much at parity or beyond the i965 OpenGL driver. OpenGL 4.6 support for the Intel OpenGL driver Radeon RX 5700 series (Navi 10) support [&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],"tags":[1447,1448],"class_list":["post-9479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-mesa-3d-graphics-library","tag-mesa-ppa"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479","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=9479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}