How To Install libva2 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 libva2 on Ubuntu.
What is libva2
libva2 is:
Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library (“libVA”) and API specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. The specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware, the API is however not limited to GPUs or Intel specific hardware, as other hardware and manufacturers can also freely use this API for hardware accelerated video decoding.
This package provides the main libva library.
There are three methods to install libva2 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 libva2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libva2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libva2
Install libva2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libva2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libva2
Install libva2 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 libva2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libva2
How To Uninstall libva2 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libva2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libva2
Uninstall libva2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libva2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libva2
Remove libva2 Configurations and Data
To remove libva2 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libva2
Remove libva2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libva2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libva2
Dependencies
libva2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libva2 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.