How To Install libavutil55 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil55 on Debian 9.
What is libavutil55
libavutil55 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 is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming. It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat. The goal for this library is to be modular, small, efficient and useful.
This package contains the runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavutil55 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 libavutil55 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil55 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavutil55
Install libavutil55 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil55 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavutil55
Install libavutil55 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 libavutil55 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavutil55
How To Uninstall libavutil55 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libavutil55 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavutil55
Uninstall libavutil55 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavutil55 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavutil55
Remove libavutil55 Configurations and Data
To remove libavutil55 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavutil55
Remove libavutil55 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavutil55 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavutil55
Dependencies
libavutil55 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil55 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
