How To Install Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint 21

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint 21. For those of you who didn’t know, Mesa Drivers is an open-source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, OpenGL ES, OpenCL, and other API specifications and system for rendering interactive 3D graphics.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Linux Mint 21 (Vanessa).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint 21 Vanessa

Step 1. Before running the tutorial below, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https wget ca-certificates gnupg2

Step 2. Installing Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint 21.

By default, Mesa Drivers is not available on the Linux Mint 21 base repository. Now run the following command below to add the Mesa Drivers repository to your Linux Mint system:

echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/oibaf.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu jammy main' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mesa-drivers.list

Next, import the GPG key using the following command:

sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/oibaf.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 5ABCE68FF4633EA42E219156957D2708A03A4626 > /dev/null

After that, update your system and you can install Mesa Drivers on it with the help of the command shown below:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mesa-utils

Once successfully installed, now we check your Mesa driver’s version using the following below:

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Mesa Drivers. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the latest version of the Mesa Drivers on the Linux Mint system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official Mesa Drivers website.