How To Install vainfo on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vainfo on Debian 11.
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 11. 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 11
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 11, 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 11 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 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.