How To Install aom-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom-tools on Ubuntu 22.04. aom-tools is AV1 Video Codec Library – Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom-tools on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is aom-tools

aom-tools is:

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open and royalty free video encoding format optimized for the Internet and the successor of VP9. aom is the reference encoder and decoder implementation published by the Alliance for Open Media.

This package contains the command line encoding and decoding tools.

There are three methods to install aom-tools 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 aom-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 aom-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install aom-tools

Install aom-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install aom-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install aom-tools

Install aom-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 aom-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install aom-tools

How To Uninstall aom-tools on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the aom-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove aom-tools

Uninstall aom-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall aom-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove aom-tools

Remove aom-tools Configurations and Data

To remove aom-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge aom-tools

Remove aom-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove aom-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aom-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install aom-tools package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.