How To Install librist4 on Debian 12

Learn how to install librist4 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. librist4 is Reliable Internet Stream Transport – shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librist4 on Debian 12.

What is librist4

librist4 is:

Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is a transport protocol designed for reliable transmission of video over lossy networks (including the Internet) with low latency and high quality.

RIST is intended as a more reliable successor to Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), and as an open alternative to proprietary commercial options such as Zixi, VideoFlow, QVidium, and DVEO (Dozer).

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install librist4 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 librist4 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install librist4 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librist4

Install librist4 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install librist4 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install librist4

Install librist4 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 librist4 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librist4

How To Uninstall librist4 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the librist4 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librist4

Uninstall librist4 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall librist4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librist4

Remove librist4 Configurations and Data

To remove librist4 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librist4

Remove librist4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove librist4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librist4

Dependencies

librist4 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install librist4 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.