Ubuntu now has a more official PPA to get Mesa updates

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:

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. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.