We have three PPAs for Mir, all three will builds for the supported Ubuntu series (currently 16.04 LTS “Xenial”, 18.04LTS “Bionic”, 19.04 “Disco” and 19.10 “Eoan”) as well as the current development (20.04 “Focal”).
| PPA | To add |
|---|---|
| The “Release” PPA is the recommendation for most purposes and contains the release version of Mir. | sudo add-apt-repository --update ppa:mir-team/release |
| The “Release Candidate” PPA contains the release candidate code of Mir. | sudo add-apt-repository --update ppa:mir-team/rc |
| The “Latest Integration Build” PPA contains the latest development code of Mir built after each pull request lands. | sudo add-apt-repository --update ppa:mir-team/dev |
The package you may want to install
| Package | Command |
|---|---|
| Mir demo programs | sudo apt install mir-demos qterminal |
| Mesa “desktop” platform | sudo apt install mir-graphics-drivers-desktop |
| Nvidia “desktop” platform | sudo apt install mir-graphics-drivers-nvidia |
| MirAL development headers & libraries | sudo apt install libmiral-dev |
You can remove any of the PPAs as follows:
$ sudo ppa-purge mir-team/dev # or /rc or /release