How To Install libvidstab-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libvidstab-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libvidstab-dev is video stabilization library (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvidstab-dev on Debian 10.

What is libvidstab-dev

libvidstab-dev is:

Imagine you captured a nice video with your camcorder, compact camera or even cell phone while skiing, cycling or whatever sports and the video is basically just jiggled.

Modern cameras come along with hardware stabilisation, however this does not work if you have really strong vibrations - rather the contrary - sometimes this mechanism starts to oscillate.

Vid.Stab is your friend in this matter. It is designed to stabilize even strongly jiggled clips.

This package contains the development files of vid.stab.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libvidstab-dev

Install libvidstab-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libvidstab-dev

Install libvidstab-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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install libvidstab-dev

How To Uninstall libvidstab-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libvidstab-dev

Uninstall libvidstab-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvidstab-dev

Remove libvidstab-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libvidstab-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvidstab-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libvidstab-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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