How To Install libxvmc-dev on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvmc-dev on Kali Linux. libxvmc-dev is X11 Video extension library (development headers)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvmc-dev on Kali Linux.

What is libxvmc-dev

libxvmc-dev is:

libXvMC provides an X Window System client interface to the XVideo-MotionCompensation extension to the X protocol.

The XVideo-MotionCompensation extension allows for further accelerated drawing of videos. Video data may be sent at earlier stages of the decoding pipeline than raw YUV data. At the moment, driver support for XvMC is poor to non-existent.

This package contains the development headers for the library found in libxvmc1. 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/libXvMC

There are three methods to install libxvmc-dev on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libxvmc-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 libxvmc-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxvmc-dev

Install libxvmc-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libxvmc-dev

Install libxvmc-dev Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libxvmc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxvmc-dev

How To Uninstall libxvmc-dev on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the libxvmc-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxvmc-dev

Uninstall libxvmc-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxvmc-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxvmc-dev

Remove libxvmc-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libxvmc-dev configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxvmc-dev

Remove libxvmc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxvmc-dev

Dependencies

libxvmc-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxvmc-dev package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.