How To Install libavfilter-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-dev on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libavfilter-dev
libavfilter-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 audio/video filtering framework containing several filters, sources and sinks.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libavfilter-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 libavfilter-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 libavfilter-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavfilter-dev
Install libavfilter-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavfilter-dev
Install libavfilter-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 libavfilter-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavfilter-dev
How To Uninstall libavfilter-dev on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libavfilter-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavfilter-dev
Uninstall libavfilter-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavfilter-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavfilter-dev
Remove libavfilter-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libavfilter-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavfilter-dev
Remove libavfilter-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavfilter-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavfilter-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-dev package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
