Intel Release Graphical Installer for Their Linux Drivers

The Intel Linux Graphics Installer provides a friendly way for downloading the latest Intel Linux graphics software stack. Early in March, Intel –specifically the Intel Open Source Technology Centre– released a graphical installer providing Linux users with a friendly way for downloading the latest Intel-related open source Linux graphics components –for the more technical this includes:

* the Intel core kernel driver * Mesa 3D rendering library, responsible for 3D rendering, OpenGL compatibility, GLES, etc. * the 2D renderer for the X Window stack (xf86-video-intel), also known as DDX. * libdrm –the “Direct Rendering Manager” library, for communication between user applications and the kernel * the Cairo graphics library, for 2D rendering and acceleration * vaapi-driver-intel –the APIs for hardware-accelerated video rendering, processing and output * initial support for Wayland

Getting the Latest and Greatest Intel Linux Drivers

Intel Linux Graphics Installer automatically detects your hardware and system specifics and adds a software repository to your sources for keeping you up-to-date. The installer also performs a check to see if your system is running the latest drivers and, if not, it runs a system upgrade.



However, the installer doesn’t automatically add the repository authentication key to your system but it can manually added by opening a terminal, and executing:

wget --no-check-certificate https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-KEY-ilg -O - | \ sudo apt-key add -