How To Install libvpx-doc on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx-doc
on Debian 9.
What is libvpx-doc
libvpx-doc is:
VP8 and VP9 are open video codecs, originally developed by On2 and released as open source by Google Inc. They are the successor of the VP3 codec, on which the Theora codec was based.
This package contains the HTML documentation for the libvpx library in /usr/share/doc/libvpx-doc.
There are three methods to install libvpx-doc
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 libvpx-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvpx-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvpx-doc
Install libvpx-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvpx-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvpx-doc
Install libvpx-doc 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 libvpx-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvpx-doc
How To Uninstall libvpx-doc on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libvpx-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvpx-doc
Uninstall libvpx-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvpx-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvpx-doc
Remove libvpx-doc Configurations and Data
To remove libvpx-doc
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvpx-doc
Remove libvpx-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvpx-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvpx-doc
Dependencies
libvpx-doc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvpx-doc
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.