Ubuntu 25.10 DisplayLink Driver

[bwieckow]

I struggled to install it so I wanted to share it with community.

Here is how to install it in Ubuntu 25.10.

IMPORTANT: If you are doing release upgrade and have already any displaylink driver version installed please uninstall it and remove dependencies.

apt remove displaylink-driver -y && apt autoremove -y

Step-by-step Solution
1. Download and extract at least EVDI 1.14.12

From:
https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi/releases

unzip evdi-1.14.12.zip
cd evdi-1.14.12

2. Fix EVDI Makefile (important)

The original Makefile contains:
FLAGS=-Werror -Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers -Werror=sign-compare


This must be replaced with:
FLAGS=-Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers


One-line sed command (recommended)
sed -i 's/^FLAGS=.*/FLAGS=-Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers/' Makefile


Verify:
grep ^FLAGS= Makefile

3. Install Python dependency (pybind11)

pyevdi requires pybind11. Installing via pip works reliably:
python3 -m pip install --user pybind11 --break-system-packages

4. Build and install EVDI
make
sudo make install
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe evdi


Verify module is loaded:
lsmod | grep evdi

5. Install DisplayLink driver

chmod +x displaylink-driver-6.2.0-30.run
sudo ./displaylink-driver-6.2.0-30.run


The installer detects the already-installed EVDI module and completes successfully.

⚠️ Important:
During installation, the installer may ask whether it should install DisplayLink via APT (repository-based installation).

👉 Answer NO.

6. Verify DisplayLink service

systemctl status displaylink

Expected:
Active: active (running)