How To Install libmediastreamer-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmediastreamer-tools on Debian 12.
What is libmediastreamer-tools
libmediastreamer-tools is:
Mediastreamer2 is a powerful and lightweight streaming engine specially designed for voice/video telephony applications.
This open source library is responsible for all receiving and sending of multimedia streams in Linphone, including voice/video capture, encoding, decoding, and rendering.
This package contains some programs using the library.
There are three methods to install libmediastreamer-tools 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 libmediastreamer-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmediastreamer-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmediastreamer-tools
Install libmediastreamer-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmediastreamer-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmediastreamer-tools
Install libmediastreamer-tools 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 libmediastreamer-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmediastreamer-tools
How To Uninstall libmediastreamer-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libmediastreamer-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmediastreamer-tools
Uninstall libmediastreamer-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmediastreamer-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmediastreamer-tools
Remove libmediastreamer-tools Configurations and Data
To remove libmediastreamer-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmediastreamer-tools
Remove libmediastreamer-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmediastreamer-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmediastreamer-tools
Dependencies
libmediastreamer-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmediastreamer-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
