How To Install libxvidcore4 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvidcore4
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-publishing, ubuntustudio-photography, ubuntustudio-graphics, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install libxvidcore4
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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvidcore4
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.