Timo Aaltonen noted on his blog that the 'Ubuntu-X' team now have an 'Updates' PPA for you to get the latest Mesa on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 16.10.
This is likely a result of Feral Interactive's call for a PPA for this exact purpose. So it's good to see something proper come out of it.
Note: I have not tested this, since I use Antergos. I'm sure it has been thoroughly tested by the Ubuntu team involved in it.
If you don't know what Mesa is, I wrote an article explaining Mesa in a little more detail recently, so check that out. You will usually want it for Intel or AMD graphics, but you likely want the proprietary drivers for NVIDIA.
It's good to see a slightly more official way to do it on Ubuntu, as users were relying on the 'Padoka Stable Mesa' PPA which seems to be a version behind.
So now on Ubuntu you can do this to get the latest Mesa version for 16.04 and 16.10:
Then run:
If you want to revert the changes you can do this:
Hopefully in future adding a PPA just to update Mesa won't be needed. For now though, if you want to keep playing the latest Linux game ports you will likely need an up to date Mesa.
This is likely a result of Feral Interactive's call for a PPA for this exact purpose. So it's good to see something proper come out of it.
Note: I have not tested this, since I use Antergos. I'm sure it has been thoroughly tested by the Ubuntu team involved in it.
If you don't know what Mesa is, I wrote an article explaining Mesa in a little more detail recently, so check that out. You will usually want it for Intel or AMD graphics, but you likely want the proprietary drivers for NVIDIA.
It's good to see a slightly more official way to do it on Ubuntu, as users were relying on the 'Padoka Stable Mesa' PPA which seems to be a version behind.
So now on Ubuntu you can do this to get the latest Mesa version for 16.04 and 16.10:
Quotesudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
Then run:
Quotesudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
If you want to revert the changes you can do this:
Quotesudo apt install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates
Hopefully in future adding a PPA just to update Mesa won't be needed. For now though, if you want to keep playing the latest Linux game ports you will likely need an up to date Mesa.
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Nice, even though I'm not currently a Mesa user, I'm really glad to know they've done this in case I do become one in the future.
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Nice. And I just checked and Ubuntu 17.04 just got Mesa 17.0.2, so it looks like this is the year that when you install a modern Linux distro and get (almost) all your hardware supported to the fullest. Kudos for all that made this possible.
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Note: I have not tested this, since I use Antergos. I'm sure it has been thoroughly tested by the Ubuntu team involved in it.
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Note: I have not tested this, since I use Antergos. I'm sure it has been thoroughly tested by the Ubuntu team involved in it.
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i'm confused
what ppa i should use?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates
or
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa
Help please
what ppa i should use?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates
or
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa
Help please
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i'm confused
what ppa i should use?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates
or
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa
Help please
You should use the first one, which is an "official" PPA run by Ubuntu developers.
Second one is yet-another-user-who-created-a-ppa PPA.
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Thanks!i'm confused
what ppa i should use?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates
or
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa
Help please
You should use the first one, which is an "official" PPA run by Ubuntu developers.
Second one is yet-another-user-who-created-a-ppa PPA.
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Nice. About time.
But I'll keep going with Solus for now. I like the distro, it's reasonably up to date, Budgie is actually the first desktop to draw me away from KDE without missing anything (rather the opposite: I'm missing the issues I so often had with pulse in KDE :D). Though, I should work on fixing qt pathing finally which I promised :D.
But I'll keep going with Solus for now. I like the distro, it's reasonably up to date, Budgie is actually the first desktop to draw me away from KDE without missing anything (rather the opposite: I'm missing the issues I so often had with pulse in KDE :D). Though, I should work on fixing qt pathing finally which I promised :D.
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currently this breaks vlc, in case you use that.
probably wanna stick on pkppa until Timo fixes it
probably wanna stick on pkppa until Timo fixes it
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Actually, not that easy. When the whole discussion started, Ubuntu devs said they are willing to provide a place for it if someone does the work. Then came this guy "yet-another-user-who-created-a-ppa", who already has years behind him as a mesa-git ppa provider, creating a stable ppa too. Now, it seems someone from the Ubuntu devs decided to also work on it. For me it was a big surprise, as the x-swat ppa was basically abandoned for at least a year now, if not even more. Don't misunderstand, I am thankful to Timo and it's better to have more ppas, just don't take it as some great achievement or at least don't belittle the work of others on this field.i'm confused
what ppa i should use?
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/ubuntu/updates
or
https://launchpad.net/~paulo-miguel-dias/+archive/ubuntu/pkppa
Help please
You should use the first one, which is an "official" PPA run by Ubuntu developers.
Second one is yet-another-user-who-created-a-ppa PPA.
Last edited by tuxintuxedo on 27 March 2017 at 7:52 pm UTC
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I guess this is also available on Ubuntu based distros like Mint ? And for someone (like me) currently using padokka ppa it should be removed first before adding the new Ubuntu ppa ?
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currently this breaks vlc, in case you use that.Just discovered this too, which is quite an issue on Ubuntu MATE (the version I use), as it's the default video player and removal might have removed some metapackages. Back to Padoka's.
probably wanna stick on pkppa until Timo fixes it
I guess this is also available on Ubuntu based distros like Mint ? And for someone (like me) currently using padokka ppa it should be removed first before adding the new Ubuntu ppa ?If you can use Padoka's PPA on Mint, you can use this one also, though I'd recommend staying on Padoka's because of the packaging issue (isn't VLC part of Mint's default packages?).
Anyway, if you want to try, you definitely have to properly remove Padoka's PPA first:
1) sudo ppa-purge ppa:paulo-miguel-dias/pkppa to remove it
2) reboot
3) sudo apt-get autoremove --purge to remove the orphan dependancies
4) follow the instructions of the article to add the Ubuntu X PPA
Last edited by abelthorne on 28 March 2017 at 9:54 am UTC
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