How To Install libavdevice58 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice58 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libavdevice58
libavdevice58 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. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libavdevice58 Architecture: amd64 Version: 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: ffmpeg Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 273 Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavc1394-0 (>= 0.5.3), libavcodec58 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavfilter7 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavformat58 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavutil56 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.28), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta17-1), libcdio-cdda2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libcdio-paranoia2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libdc1394-22 (>= 2.2.5), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.47), libgl1, libiec61883-0 (>= 1.2.0), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.10+20150825) | libjack-0.125, libopenal1 (>= 1.14), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libraw1394-11, libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.10), libsndio7.0 (>= 1.1.0), libx11-6, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxv1 Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavdevice58_4.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 74264 MD5sum: 5789a1a357ba8dc4e3bd3e2da0232975 SHA1: 1802b6690f79401308ae1b575e71413c57da9bcf SHA256: ee657439ff5fb3c5fc303f718a9c12aa90ad026c1328482d9578d9d7cf6f9a34 Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/ Description-en: FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files 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. Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libavdevice58 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 libavdevice58 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice58 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavdevice58
Install libavdevice58 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice58 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavdevice58
Install libavdevice58 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 libavdevice58 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavdevice58
How To Uninstall libavdevice58 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libavdevice58 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavdevice58
Uninstall libavdevice58 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavdevice58 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavdevice58
Remove libavdevice58 Configurations and Data
To remove libavdevice58 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavdevice58
Remove libavdevice58 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavdevice58 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavdevice58
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice58 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
