How to Install and Uninstall libvpx-dev Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "libvpx-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install libvpx-dev on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libvpx-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libvpx-dev" package

Learn how to uninstall libvpx-dev on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libvpx-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libvpx-dev package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: libvpx-dev
Source: libvpx
Version: 1.7.0-3+deb10u1
Installed-Size: 3314
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libvpx5 (= 1.7.0-3+deb10u1)
Description: VP8 and VP9 video codec (development files)
Description-md5: 20f177b050644bf2586164ae43baab1e
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.webmproject.org
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libv/libvpx/libvpx-dev_1.7.0-3+deb10u1_amd64.deb
Size: 944472
MD5sum: d91466e55f2bdeb14524c6b92f196d21
SHA256: 68e45c2fe8ab041bda2865fb161aeb9049eae2f14460078f08fdc6cf333a04a0