How To Install libavfilter-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libavfilter-dev
libavfilter-dev 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 audio/video filtering framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.
This package contains the development files.
Package: libavfilter-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel 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: 6042 Depends: libavcodec-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavfilter7 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavformat-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libavutil-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libpostproc-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libswresample-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1), libswscale-dev (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1) Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavfilter-dev_4.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1262964 MD5sum: 8efe9459d5db2f349afbb3c13dd91d37 SHA1: cd03f231eb724dfce02b8284ae733d20a8cd5bf3 SHA256: c084dca63f718e10f3db950fcd2e9a1f066df326587ba324c6242b77b440f75b Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/ Description-en: FFmpeg library containing media filters - development 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 audio/video filtering framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libavfilter-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 libavfilter-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 libavfilter-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavfilter-dev
Install libavfilter-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavfilter-dev
Install libavfilter-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 libavfilter-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavfilter-dev
How To Uninstall libavfilter-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libavfilter-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavfilter-dev
Uninstall libavfilter-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavfilter-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavfilter-dev
Remove libavfilter-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libavfilter-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavfilter-dev
Remove libavfilter-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavfilter-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavfilter-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.