DisplayLink Forum - Ubuntu 25.10 DisplayLink Driver

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.

Code:

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

Code:

unzip evdi-1.14.12.zip

cd evdi-1.14.12

2. Fix EVDI Makefile (important)

The original Makefile contains:

Code:

FLAGS=-Werror -Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers -Werror=sign-compare

This must be replaced with:

Code:

FLAGS=-Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers

One-line sed command (recommended)

Code:

sed -i 's/^FLAGS=.*/FLAGS=-Wextra -Wall -Wno-error=missing-field-initializers/' Makefile

Verify:

Code:

grep ^FLAGS= Makefile

3. Install Python dependency (pybind11)

pyevdi requires pybind11. Installing via pip works reliably:

Code:

python3 -m pip install --user pybind11 --break-system-packages

4. Build and install EVDI

Code:

make

sudo make install

sudo depmod -a

sudo modprobe evdi

Verify module is loaded:

Code:

lsmod | grep evdi

5. Install DisplayLink driver

Code:

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

Code:

systemctl status displaylink

Expected:

Code:

Active: active (running)