Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libavutil-dev
libavutil-dev 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 is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming.
It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data
structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia
related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats).
It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat.
The goal for this library is to be modular, small, efficient and useful.
This package contains the development files.
Package: libavutil-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: ffmpeg
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1727
Depends: libavutil56 (= 7:4.2.2-1ubuntu1)
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavutil-dev_4.2.2-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 364940
MD5sum: fddf007c473050e98d9a0e79ccbfe3fa
SHA1: 6bba1b95562bc4c145c217cdcf7eabd0102f9dcb
SHA256: fcda2151823660f01cd1c7567b5116ce4709492cde4d58895627664b13d4c492
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Description-en: FFmpeg library with functions for simplifying programming – development files
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 is a utility library to aid portable multimedia programming.
It contains safe portable string functions, random number generators, data
structures, additional mathematics functions, cryptography and multimedia
related functionality (like enumerations for pixel and sample formats).
It is not a library for code needed by both libavcodec and libavformat.
The goal for this library is to be modular, small, efficient and useful.
This package contains the development files.
There are three methods to install libavutil-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libavutil-dev Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil-dev using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavutil-dev
Install libavutil-dev Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil-dev using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavutil-dev
Install libavutil-dev 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 libavutil-dev using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavutil-dev
How To Uninstall libavutil-dev on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libavutil-dev package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavutil-dev
Uninstall libavutil-dev And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavutil-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavutil-dev
Remove libavutil-dev Configurations and Data
To remove libavutil-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavutil-dev
Remove libavutil-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavutil-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavutil-dev
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
