How To Install libavdevice59 on Debian 12
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
.