How To Install libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 Ubuntu 18.04. 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
