How To Install libmatroska7 on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska7 on Debian 11.
What is libmatroska7
libmatroska7 is:
Matroska is aiming to become the standard of Multimedia Container Formats one day. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a kind of binary version of XML. This way the significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility are gained without breaking file support in old parsers.
This package contains the shared library needed to run applications that use libmatroska.
There are three methods to install libmatroska7 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmatroska7 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmatroska7 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmatroska7
Install libmatroska7 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmatroska7 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmatroska7
Install libmatroska7 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 libmatroska7 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmatroska7
How To Uninstall libmatroska7 on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libmatroska7 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmatroska7
Uninstall libmatroska7 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmatroska7 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmatroska7
Remove libmatroska7 Configurations and Data
To remove libmatroska7 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmatroska7
Remove libmatroska7 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmatroska7 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmatroska7
Dependencies
libmatroska7 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmatroska7 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
