How To Install libgavl2 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libgavl2 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libgavl2 is low level audio and video library - runtime files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl2 on Debian 12.

What is libgavl2

libgavl2 is:

Gavl handles all the details of audio and video formats like colorspaces, samplerates, multichannel configurations etc. It provides standardized definitions for those formats as well as container structures for carrying audio samples or video images inside an application.

In addition, it handles the sometimes ugly task to convert between all these formats and provides some elementary operations (copying, scaling, alpha blending etc).

This package contains the files needed to run a program compiled using Gavl.

There are three methods to install libgavl2 on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgavl2 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgavl2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgavl2

Install libgavl2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgavl2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgavl2

Install libgavl2 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 libgavl2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgavl2

How To Uninstall libgavl2 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libgavl2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgavl2

Uninstall libgavl2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgavl2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgavl2

Remove libgavl2 Configurations and Data

To remove libgavl2 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgavl2

Remove libgavl2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgavl2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgavl2

Dependencies

libgavl2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgavl2 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.