How To Install libvlc5 on Debian 10

Learn how to install libvlc5 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libvlc5 is multimedia player and streamer library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvlc5 on Debian 10.

What is libvlc5

libvlc5 is:

VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

This package contains the shared library required by applications using VLC features.

There are three methods to install libvlc5 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 libvlc5 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libvlc5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libvlc5

Install libvlc5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libvlc5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libvlc5

Install libvlc5 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 libvlc5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libvlc5

How To Uninstall libvlc5 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libvlc5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libvlc5

Uninstall libvlc5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libvlc5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvlc5

Remove libvlc5 Configurations and Data

To remove libvlc5 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libvlc5

Remove libvlc5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libvlc5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvlc5

Dependencies

libvlc5 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libvlc5 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.