How To Install libavutil57 on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil57 on Debian 12.
What is libavutil57
libavutil57 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 runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavutil57 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 libavutil57 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil57 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavutil57
Install libavutil57 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil57 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavutil57
Install libavutil57 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 libavutil57 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavutil57
How To Uninstall libavutil57 on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libavutil57 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavutil57
Uninstall libavutil57 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavutil57 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavutil57
Remove libavutil57 Configurations and Data
To remove libavutil57 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavutil57
Remove libavutil57 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavutil57 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavutil57
Dependencies
libavutil57 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil57 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.