How To Install ffmsindex on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmsindex
on Debian 10.
What is ffmsindex
ffmsindex is:
A cross platform ffmpeg wrapper library, and some additional content for things ffmpeg doesn’t handle well. A more friendly API and an easy way to say “open and decompress this, I don’t care how”.
This package contain a command line indexer tool. Used to create index files which can later be used by applications which are useing ffms2 to speed up loading of multimedia files.
There are three methods to install ffmsindex
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ffmsindex Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ffmsindex
Install ffmsindex Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ffmsindex
Install ffmsindex Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ffmsindex
How To Uninstall ffmsindex on Debian 10
To uninstall only the ffmsindex
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ffmsindex
Uninstall ffmsindex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ffmsindex
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmsindex
Remove ffmsindex Configurations and Data
To remove ffmsindex
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ffmsindex
Remove ffmsindex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ffmsindex
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffmsindex
Dependencies
ffmsindex have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmsindex
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.