How To Install libaom3 on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libaom3 on Ubuntu.
What is libaom3
libaom3 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 shared library.
There are three methods to install libaom3 on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libaom3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libaom3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libaom3
Install libaom3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libaom3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libaom3
Install libaom3 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 libaom3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libaom3
How To Uninstall libaom3 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libaom3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libaom3
Uninstall libaom3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libaom3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libaom3
Remove libaom3 Configurations and Data
To remove libaom3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libaom3
Remove libaom3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libaom3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libaom3
Dependencies
libaom3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libaom3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.