How To Install libavdevice57 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice57 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libavdevice57
libavdevice57 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 framework for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.
This package contains the runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavdevice57 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libavdevice57 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice57 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavdevice57
Install libavdevice57 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice57 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavdevice57
Install libavdevice57 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 libavdevice57 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavdevice57
How To Uninstall libavdevice57 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libavdevice57 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavdevice57
Uninstall libavdevice57 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavdevice57 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavdevice57
Remove libavdevice57 Configurations and Data
To remove libavdevice57 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavdevice57
Remove libavdevice57 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavdevice57 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavdevice57
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice57 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
