How To Install yuview on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yuview on Debian 11.
What is yuview
yuview is:
YUView is a YUV image player and analysis tool. However, it can do so much more:
- simple navigation/zooming in the video
- support for a wide variety of YUV formats using various subsamplings and bit depts
- support for raw RGB files, image files and image sequences
- direct decoding of raw h.265/HEVC bitstreams with visualization of internals like prediction modes and motion vectors and many more
- interface with visualization for the reference software decoders HM and JEM
- support for opening almost any file using FFmpeg
- image comparison using side-by-side and comparison view
- calculation and display of differences (in YUV or RGB colorspace)
- save and load playlists
- overlay the video with statistics data
Note: YUV is kind of RAW image format stored by color spaces. Y stands for luminance component, so it’s in black-and-white, while UV are chromatic parts of the image.
There are three methods to install yuview 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 yuview Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yuview using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yuview
Install yuview Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yuview using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yuview
Install yuview 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 yuview using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yuview
How To Uninstall yuview on Debian 11
To uninstall only the yuview package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yuview
Uninstall yuview And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yuview and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yuview
Remove yuview Configurations and Data
To remove yuview configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yuview
Remove yuview configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yuview configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yuview
Dependencies
yuview have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yuview package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.