How To Install libspa-ffmpeg on Debian 10

Learn how to install libspa-ffmpeg on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libspa-ffmpeg is libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - ffmpeg plugins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspa-ffmpeg on Debian 10.

What is libspa-ffmpeg

libspa-ffmpeg is:

PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia pipelines. This includes:

  • Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
  • Accessing sources of video for consumption.
  • Generating graphs for audio and video processing.

This package contains the ffmpeg plugins.

There are three methods to install libspa-ffmpeg on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libspa-ffmpeg Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libspa-ffmpeg

Install libspa-ffmpeg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libspa-ffmpeg

Install libspa-ffmpeg 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 libspa-ffmpeg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libspa-ffmpeg

How To Uninstall libspa-ffmpeg on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libspa-ffmpeg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libspa-ffmpeg

Uninstall libspa-ffmpeg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libspa-ffmpeg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libspa-ffmpeg

Remove libspa-ffmpeg Configurations and Data

To remove libspa-ffmpeg configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libspa-ffmpeg

Remove libspa-ffmpeg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libspa-ffmpeg

Dependencies

libspa-ffmpeg have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libspa-ffmpeg package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.