How to Install mesa-vdpau-drivers software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install mesa-vdpau-drivers software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

mesa-vdpau-drivers software package provides Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mesa-vdpau-drivers 

mesa-vdpau-drivers is installed in your system.

Make ensure the mesa-vdpau-drivers package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mesa-vdpau-drivers *

You will get with mesa-vdpau-drivers package name, version, architecture and description in a table

mesa-vdpau-drivers package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Libraries
Package mesa-vdpau-drivers
Version 10.1.0-4ubuntu5
Description Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
Sub Section libs


See Also, How to uninstall or remove mesa-vdpau-drivers software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?