How To Install v4l2loopback-source on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install v4l2loopback-source
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is v4l2loopback-source
v4l2loopback-source is:
This module allows you to create “virtual video devices”. Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
This package provides the source code for the v4l2loopback kernel modules.
Package: v4l2loopback-source Architecture: all Version: 0.12.3-1 Priority: extra Section: universe/graphics Source: v4l2loopback Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 55 Depends: debhelper, make, bzip2 Recommends: module-assistant Filename: pool/universe/v/v4l2loopback/v4l2loopback-source_0.12.3-1_all.deb Size: 41944 MD5sum: a8302e3bcb2ee009c57b7c0c9d778dad SHA1: 878de1aa8f0f4bbe40f4f712822571eb861be92d SHA256: e4c67ccb69953fc4831262cf0af4829a34e3f7d74aa4b6af571663fcfc0a7c8a Homepage: https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback Description-en: Source for the v4l2loopback driver This module allows you to create “virtual video devices”. Normal (v4l2) applications will read these devices as if they were ordinary video devices, but the video will not be read from e.g. a capture card but instead it is generated by another application.
This package provides the source code for the v4l2loopback kernel modules.
There are three methods to install v4l2loopback-source
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 v4l2loopback-source Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install v4l2loopback-source
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install v4l2loopback-source
Install v4l2loopback-source Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install v4l2loopback-source
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install v4l2loopback-source
Install v4l2loopback-source 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 v4l2loopback-source
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install v4l2loopback-source
How To Uninstall v4l2loopback-source on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the v4l2loopback-source
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove v4l2loopback-source
Uninstall v4l2loopback-source And Its Dependencies
To uninstall v4l2loopback-source
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove v4l2loopback-source
Remove v4l2loopback-source Configurations and Data
To remove v4l2loopback-source
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge v4l2loopback-source
Remove v4l2loopback-source configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove v4l2loopback-source
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge v4l2loopback-source
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install v4l2loopback-source
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.