How To Install vainfo on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo
on Debian 10.
What is vainfo
vainfo is:
Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library (“libVA”) and API specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this API for hardware accelerated video decoding.
This package provides the vainfo program.
There are three methods to install vainfo
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vainfo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vainfo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vainfo
Install vainfo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vainfo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vainfo
Install vainfo 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vainfo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vainfo
How To Uninstall vainfo on Debian 10
To uninstall only the vainfo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vainfo
Uninstall vainfo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vainfo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vainfo
Remove vainfo Configurations and Data
To remove vainfo
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vainfo
Remove vainfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vainfo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vainfo
Dependencies
vainfo have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.