How To Install libavutil56 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 libavutil56 on Ubuntu.
What is libavutil56
libavutil56 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 runtime files.
There are three methods to install libavutil56 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 libavutil56 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil56 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libavutil56
Install libavutil56 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libavutil56 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libavutil56
Install libavutil56 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 libavutil56 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libavutil56
How To Uninstall libavutil56 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libavutil56 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libavutil56
Uninstall libavutil56 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libavutil56 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libavutil56
Remove libavutil56 Configurations and Data
To remove libavutil56 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libavutil56
Remove libavutil56 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libavutil56 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libavutil56
Dependencies
libavutil56 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libavutil56 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.