How To Install libavfilter6 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter6
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libavfilter6
libavfilter6 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 runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavfilter6
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 libavfilter6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter6
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavfilter6
Install libavfilter6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavfilter6
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavfilter6
Install libavfilter6 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 libavfilter6
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavfilter6
How To Uninstall libavfilter6 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libavfilter6
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavfilter6
Uninstall libavfilter6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavfilter6
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavfilter6
Remove libavfilter6 Configurations and Data
To remove libavfilter6
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavfilter6
Remove libavfilter6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavfilter6
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavfilter6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavfilter6
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.