How To Install libavutil-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil-dev on Kali Linux. libavutil-dev is FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libavutil-dev

libavutil-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 is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming. It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats). It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat. The goal for this library is to be modular, small, efficient and useful.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libavutil-dev on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libavutil-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 libavutil-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libavutil-dev

Install libavutil-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libavutil-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libavutil-dev

Install libavutil-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libavutil-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libavutil-dev

How To Uninstall libavutil-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libavutil-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libavutil-dev

Uninstall libavutil-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libavutil-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavutil-dev

Remove libavutil-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libavutil-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libavutil-dev

Remove libavutil-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libavutil-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavutil-dev

Dependencies

libavutil-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.