How To Install libyami1 on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install libyami1 on Debian 9. libyami1 is high-level abstraction for Video Acceleration (VA) API (shared library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libyami1 on Debian 9.

What is libyami1

libyami1 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. libyami builds on top of libva, and provides high level API for video processing. It will help with bitstream parsing, reference frame management, etc.

This package provides the shared library for libyami.

There are three methods to install libyami1 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 libyami1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libyami1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libyami1

Install libyami1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libyami1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libyami1

Install libyami1 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 libyami1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libyami1

How To Uninstall libyami1 on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libyami1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libyami1

Uninstall libyami1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libyami1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libyami1

Remove libyami1 Configurations and Data

To remove libyami1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libyami1

Remove libyami1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libyami1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libyami1

Dependencies

libyami1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libyami1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.