How To Install libxvidcore4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvidcore4 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libxvidcore4
libxvidcore4 is:
Xvid (formerly XviD) is an open source MPEG-4 video codec, implementing MPEG-4 Simple Profile, Advanced Simple Profile, and Advanced Video Coding standards. It is written in C with assembler optimizations for quality and speed (including MMX, SSE, and 3Dnow! code for i386 and AltiVec for PowerPC), and is especially optimized towards offline, multi-pass compression for storage and archival purposes.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libxvidcore4 on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libxvidcore4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libxvidcore4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libxvidcore4
Install libxvidcore4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libxvidcore4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libxvidcore4
Install libxvidcore4 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 libxvidcore4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libxvidcore4
How To Uninstall libxvidcore4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libxvidcore4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libxvidcore4
Uninstall libxvidcore4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libxvidcore4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxvidcore4
Remove libxvidcore4 Configurations and Data
To remove libxvidcore4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libxvidcore4
Remove libxvidcore4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libxvidcore4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxvidcore4
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvidcore4 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.