How To Install libva2 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva2 on Kali Linux.

What is libva2

libva2 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 libva2 on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libva2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libva2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libva2

Install libva2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libva2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libva2

Install libva2 Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libva2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libva2

How To Uninstall libva2 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libva2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libva2

Uninstall libva2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libva2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libva2

Remove libva2 Configurations and Data

To remove libva2 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libva2

Remove libva2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libva2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libva2

Dependencies

libva2 have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libva2 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libva2 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.