How to Install and Uninstall libavformat-dev Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 18,2024

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

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1. Install "libavformat-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libavformat-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libavformat-dev on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: libavformat-dev
Source: ffmpeg
Version: 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 5496
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavcodec-dev (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1), libavformat59 (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1), libavutil-dev (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1), libswresample-dev (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1)
Description: FFmpeg library with (de)muxers for multimedia containers - development files
Description-md5: c3d0b37350451cbc0772c02383988a7b
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Tag: devel::lang:c, devel::library, implemented-in::c, role::devel-lib,
role::program, works-with::video
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libavformat-dev_5.1.4-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 1304824
MD5sum: bc490e9d6ead372f89c3658e66458100
SHA256: 043a9fefcbbcc2c784838b5d7a8fb21b2578ba02f28e8599d380448fc7d0e245