DisplayLink

Install on Ubuntu 16 LTS

sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial
sudo apt-get install dkms
# define the version to get as the latest available version
version=`wget -q -O - http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu | grep "download-version" | head -n 1 | perl -pe '($_)=/([0-9]+([.][0-9]+)+)/'`
# define download url to be the correct version
dlurl="http://www.displaylink.com/"`wget -q -O - http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/ubuntu | grep "download-link" | head -n 1 | perl -pe '($_)=/<a href="\/([^"]+)"[^>]+class="download-link"/'`
driver_dir=$version

Verify installed driver version

sudo displaylink-installer

References

• How to install DisplayLink software on Ubuntu DisplayLink Support
• Porting Ubuntu driver to other distribution DisplayLink Support
• Install Display Link Ubuntu Official
• Supported Chips on Linux Wikimedia
• DisplayLink driver installer for Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Mint, Kali and Deepin Linux Github repo