How To Install libavdevice58 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice58
on Debian 10.
What is libavdevice58
libavdevice58 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 runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavdevice58
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 libavdevice58 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice58
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavdevice58
Install libavdevice58 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice58
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavdevice58
Install libavdevice58 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 libavdevice58
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavdevice58
How To Uninstall libavdevice58 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libavdevice58
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavdevice58
Uninstall libavdevice58 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavdevice58
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavdevice58
Remove libavdevice58 Configurations and Data
To remove libavdevice58
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavdevice58
Remove libavdevice58 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavdevice58
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavdevice58
Dependencies
libavdevice58 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice58
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.