How To Install libavfilter-extra8 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-extra8 on Debian 12.
What is libavfilter-extra8
libavfilter-extra8 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)
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-extra8 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 libavfilter-extra8 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-extra8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavfilter-extra8
Install libavfilter-extra8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter-extra8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavfilter-extra8
Install libavfilter-extra8 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 libavfilter-extra8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavfilter-extra8
How To Uninstall libavfilter-extra8 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libavfilter-extra8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavfilter-extra8
Uninstall libavfilter-extra8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavfilter-extra8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavfilter-extra8
Remove libavfilter-extra8 Configurations and Data
To remove libavfilter-extra8 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavfilter-extra8
Remove libavfilter-extra8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavfilter-extra8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavfilter-extra8
Dependencies
libavfilter-extra8 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter-extra8 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
