How To Install libavcodec57 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavcodec57
on Debian 9.
What is libavcodec57
libavcodec57 is:
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
This library provides a generic encoding/decoding framework and contains multiple decoders and encoders for audio, video and subtitle streams, and several bitstream filters.
The shared architecture provides various services ranging from bit stream I/O to DSP optimizations, and makes it suitable for implementing robust and fast codecs as well as for experimentation.
This package contains the runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavcodec57
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libavcodec57 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavcodec57
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavcodec57
Install libavcodec57 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavcodec57
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavcodec57
Install libavcodec57 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 libavcodec57
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavcodec57
How To Uninstall libavcodec57 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libavcodec57
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavcodec57
Uninstall libavcodec57 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavcodec57
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavcodec57
Remove libavcodec57 Configurations and Data
To remove libavcodec57
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavcodec57
Remove libavcodec57 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavcodec57
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavcodec57
Dependencies
libavcodec57 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavcodec57
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.