How To Install librist-dev on Debian 12

Learn how to install librist-dev on Debian 12 with this tutorial. librist-dev is Reliable Internet Stream Transport – development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install librist-dev on Debian 12.

What is librist-dev

librist-dev is:

Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is a transport protocol designed for reliable transmission of video over lossy networks (including the Internet) with low latency and high quality.

RIST is intended as a more reliable successor to Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), and as an open alternative to proprietary commercial options such as Zixi, VideoFlow, QVidium, and DVEO (Dozer).

This package contains the library development files.

There are three methods to install librist-dev 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 librist-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 librist-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install librist-dev

Install librist-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install librist-dev

Install librist-dev 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 librist-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librist-dev

How To Uninstall librist-dev on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove librist-dev

Uninstall librist-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librist-dev

Remove librist-dev Configurations and Data

To remove librist-dev configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librist-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

librist-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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