How To Install libva1 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libva1 on Debian 9.
What is libva1
libva1 is:
Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library (“libVA”) and API specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this API for hardware accelerated video decoding.
This package provides the main libva library.
There are three methods to install libva1 on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libva1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libva1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libva1
Install libva1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libva1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libva1
Install libva1 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 libva1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libva1
How To Uninstall libva1 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libva1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libva1
Uninstall libva1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libva1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libva1
Remove libva1 Configurations and Data
To remove libva1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libva1
Remove libva1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libva1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libva1
Dependencies
libva1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libva1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.