How To Install libmfx1 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libmfx1 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libmfx1 is Intel Media SDK – shared library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx1 on Debian 12.

What is libmfx1

libmfx1 is:

Intel? Media SDK provides an API to access hardware-accelerated video decode, encode and filtering on Intel? platforms with integrated graphics.

Supported video encoders: HEVC, AVC, MPEG-2, JPEG Supported Video decoders: HEVC, AVC, VP8, MPEG-2, VC1, JPEG Supported video pre-processing filters: Color Conversion, Deinterlace, Denoise, Resize, Rotate, Composition

This package contains the shared library.

There are three methods to install libmfx1 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 libmfx1 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmfx1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmfx1

Install libmfx1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmfx1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmfx1

Install libmfx1 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 libmfx1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmfx1

How To Uninstall libmfx1 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libmfx1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmfx1

Uninstall libmfx1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmfx1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmfx1

Remove libmfx1 Configurations and Data

To remove libmfx1 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmfx1

Remove libmfx1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmfx1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmfx1

Dependencies

libmfx1 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmfx1 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.