How To Install libva-drm1 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-drm1
on Debian 9.
What is libva-drm1
libva-drm1 is:
Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library (“libVA”) and API specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this API for hardware accelerated video decoding.
This package provides the libva-drm library.
There are three methods to install libva-drm1
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 libva-drm1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libva-drm1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libva-drm1
Install libva-drm1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libva-drm1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libva-drm1
Install libva-drm1 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 libva-drm1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libva-drm1
How To Uninstall libva-drm1 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libva-drm1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libva-drm1
Uninstall libva-drm1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libva-drm1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libva-drm1
Remove libva-drm1 Configurations and Data
To remove libva-drm1
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libva-drm1
Remove libva-drm1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libva-drm1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libva-drm1
Dependencies
libva-drm1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-drm1
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.