How To Install libva-x11-2 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libva-x11-2 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libva-x11-2 is Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux – X11 runtime

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-x11-2 on Debian 10.

What is libva-x11-2

libva-x11-2 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-x11 library.

There are three methods to install libva-x11-2 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 libva-x11-2 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-x11-2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libva-x11-2

Install libva-x11-2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libva-x11-2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libva-x11-2

Install libva-x11-2 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-x11-2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libva-x11-2

How To Uninstall libva-x11-2 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libva-x11-2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libva-x11-2

Uninstall libva-x11-2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libva-x11-2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libva-x11-2

Remove libva-x11-2 Configurations and Data

To remove libva-x11-2 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libva-x11-2

Remove libva-x11-2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libva-x11-2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libva-x11-2

Dependencies

libva-x11-2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva-x11-2 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.