How To Install libaom-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libaom-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libaom-dev
libaom-dev is:
AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open and royalty free video encoding format optimized for the Internet and the successor of VP9. aom is the reference encoder and decoder implementation published by the Alliance for Open Media.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libaom-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libaom-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libaom-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libaom-dev
Install libaom-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libaom-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libaom-dev
Install libaom-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libaom-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libaom-dev
How To Uninstall libaom-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libaom-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libaom-dev
Uninstall libaom-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libaom-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libaom-dev
Remove libaom-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libaom-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libaom-dev
Remove libaom-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libaom-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libaom-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libaom-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.