How To Install libavdevice59 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libavdevice59 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libavdevice59 is FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice59 on Debian 12.

What is `libavdevice59`

libavdevice59 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 libavdevice59 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 libavdevice59 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice59 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libavdevice59

Install libavdevice59 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libavdevice59 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libavdevice59

Install libavdevice59 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 libavdevice59 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libavdevice59

How To Uninstall libavdevice59 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libavdevice59 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libavdevice59

Uninstall libavdevice59 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libavdevice59 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavdevice59

Remove libavdevice59 Configurations and Data

To remove libavdevice59 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libavdevice59

Remove libavdevice59 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libavdevice59 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavdevice59

Dependencies

libavdevice59 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavdevice59 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.