How To Install libxv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxv-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libxv-dev
libxv-dev is:
libXv provides an X Window System client interface to the XVideo extension to the X protocol.
The XVideo extension allows for accelerated drawing of videos. Hardware adaptors are exposed to clients, which may draw in a number of colourspaces, including YUV.
This package contains the development headers for the library found in libxv1. Non-developers likely have little use for this package.
More information about X.Org can be found at: URL:https://www.X.org
This module can be found at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libXv
There are three methods to install libxv-dev
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libxv-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libxv-dev
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxv-dev
Install libxv-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxv-dev
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxv-dev
Install libxv-dev 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install libxv-dev
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxv-dev
How To Uninstall libxv-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libxv-dev
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxv-dev
Uninstall libxv-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxv-dev
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxv-dev
Remove libxv-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libxv-dev
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxv-dev
Remove libxv-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxv-dev
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxv-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxv-dev
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.