How To Install libaom-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libaom-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libaom-dev is AV1 Video Codec Library – Development Files

Introduction

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

What is libaom-dev

libaom-dev is:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open and royalty free video encoding format optimized for the Internet and the successor of VP9. aom is the reference encoder and decoder implementation published by the Alliance for Open Media.

This package contains the development files.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libaom-dev

Install libaom-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libaom-dev

Install libaom-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 libaom-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libaom-dev

How To Uninstall libaom-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libaom-dev

Uninstall libaom-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libaom-dev

Remove libaom-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libaom-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libaom-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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