How To Install libavcodec58 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavcodec58
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libavcodec58
libavcodec58 is:
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode, mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the cutting edge.
This library provides a generic encoding/decoding framework and contains multiple decoders and encoders for audio, video and subtitle streams, and several bitstream filters.
The shared architecture provides various services ranging from bit stream I/O to DSP optimizations, and makes it suitable for implementing robust and fast codecs as well as for experimentation.
This package contains the runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavcodec58
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libavcodec58 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavcodec58
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavcodec58
Install libavcodec58 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavcodec58
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavcodec58
Install libavcodec58 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 libavcodec58
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavcodec58
How To Uninstall libavcodec58 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libavcodec58
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavcodec58
Uninstall libavcodec58 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavcodec58
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavcodec58
Remove libavcodec58 Configurations and Data
To remove libavcodec58
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavcodec58
Remove libavcodec58 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavcodec58
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavcodec58
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavcodec58
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.