How To Install libavfilter-extra6 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-extra6 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libavfilter-extra6
libavfilter-extra6 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 replaces the libavfilter6 package and contains the following additional filters:
- Optical Character Recognition (uses Tesseract)
- SOFAlizer (Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics, uses netcdf)
Because this package links against libraries that are licensed under Apache License 2.0, the resulting binaries are distributed under the GPL version 3 or later.
There are three methods to install libavfilter-extra6 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-extra6 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-extra6 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavfilter-extra6
Install libavfilter-extra6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter-extra6 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavfilter-extra6
Install libavfilter-extra6 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-extra6 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavfilter-extra6
How To Uninstall libavfilter-extra6 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libavfilter-extra6 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavfilter-extra6
Uninstall libavfilter-extra6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavfilter-extra6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavfilter-extra6
Remove libavfilter-extra6 Configurations and Data
To remove libavfilter-extra6 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavfilter-extra6
Remove libavfilter-extra6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavfilter-extra6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavfilter-extra6
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-extra6 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
