How To Install vpx-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpx-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is vpx-tools
vpx-tools is:
VP8 and VP9 are open video codecs, originally developed by On2 and released as open source by Google Inc. They are the successor of the VP3 codec, on which the Theora codec was based.
This package contains the commandline tools vpxdec and vpxenc.
There are three methods to install vpx-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vpx-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vpx-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vpx-tools
Install vpx-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vpx-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vpx-tools
Install vpx-tools 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 vpx-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vpx-tools
How To Uninstall vpx-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the vpx-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vpx-tools
Uninstall vpx-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vpx-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vpx-tools
Remove vpx-tools Configurations and Data
To remove vpx-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vpx-tools
Remove vpx-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vpx-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vpx-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vpx-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
