How To Install liboggplay1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboggplay1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. liboggplay1-dev is Library for playing OGG multimedia (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboggplay1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is liboggplay1-dev

liboggplay1-dev is:

liboggplay was designed to allow drop-in playback of Xiph.Org media in an application. liboggplay handles demuxing and decoding, generates timestamps for raw data, maintains synchronisation across multiple streams, and provides a lock-free buffer implementation for easy multithreading.

This package contains the header files and static libraries required for developing applications that use liboggplay.

There are three methods to install liboggplay1-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 liboggplay1-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 liboggplay1-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liboggplay1-dev

Install liboggplay1-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liboggplay1-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liboggplay1-dev

Install liboggplay1-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 liboggplay1-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liboggplay1-dev

How To Uninstall liboggplay1-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the liboggplay1-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liboggplay1-dev

Uninstall liboggplay1-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liboggplay1-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liboggplay1-dev

Remove liboggplay1-dev Configurations and Data

To remove liboggplay1-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liboggplay1-dev

Remove liboggplay1-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liboggplay1-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liboggplay1-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liboggplay1-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.