How to Install and Uninstall libavcodec-extra Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 11,2025

You can also install and uninstall the libavcodec-extra on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

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1. Install "libavcodec-extra" package

Learn how to install libavcodec-extra on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libavcodec-extra" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libavcodec-extra on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libavcodec-extra
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libavcodec-extra package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libavcodec-extra
Source: ffmpeg
Version: 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 84
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavcodec-extra59 (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1)
Description: FFmpeg library with extra codecs (metapackage)
Description-md5: c7fed3b8f923a493b5362cbf63eca594
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: metapackages
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec-extra_5.1.4-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 49388
MD5sum: 20c78f3542a124a8c03b2557be00139a
SHA256: 0baa1ad323c3ffb4fa85ea3ccbabafec4e009c483387f4086df8d450e4c02cd5