How To Install libplacebo7 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libplacebo7 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libplacebo7 is GPU-accelerated video/image rendering primitives (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libplacebo7 on Debian 10.

What is libplacebo7

libplacebo7 is:

The library provides useful GPU-accelerated image processing primitives based on GLSL. It includes shader routines for decoding and transforming colors, tone mapping, dithering, and for various algorithms that sample from images, such as debanding and scaling.

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libplacebo7 on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libplacebo7 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libplacebo7 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libplacebo7

Install libplacebo7 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libplacebo7 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libplacebo7

Install libplacebo7 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 libplacebo7 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libplacebo7

How To Uninstall libplacebo7 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libplacebo7 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libplacebo7

Uninstall libplacebo7 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libplacebo7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libplacebo7

Remove libplacebo7 Configurations and Data

To remove libplacebo7 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libplacebo7

Remove libplacebo7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libplacebo7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libplacebo7

Dependencies

libplacebo7 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libplacebo7 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.