How To Install vainfo on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo on Debian 11. vainfo is Video Acceleration (VA) API for Linux – info program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo on Debian 11.

What is vainfo

vainfo 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 vainfo program.

There are three methods to install vainfo on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install vainfo Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vainfo

Install vainfo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vainfo

Install vainfo 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 vainfo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vainfo

How To Uninstall vainfo on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove vainfo

Uninstall vainfo And Its Dependencies

To uninstall vainfo and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vainfo

Remove vainfo Configurations and Data

To remove vainfo configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vainfo

Remove vainfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vainfo

Dependencies

vainfo have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.