How To Install libavdevice-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install libavdevice-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libavdevice-dev is FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice-dev on Debian 12.

What is libavdevice-dev

libavdevice-dev is:

FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.

This library provides a generic framework for grabbing from and rendering to many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libavdevice-dev on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libavdevice-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 libavdevice-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libavdevice-dev

Install libavdevice-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libavdevice-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libavdevice-dev

How To Uninstall libavdevice-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libavdevice-dev

Uninstall libavdevice-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libavdevice-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavdevice-dev

Remove libavdevice-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libavdevice-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libavdevice-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libavdevice-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice-dev package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.