How to Install and Uninstall libswscale6 Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 20,2024

You can also install and uninstall the libswscale6 on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "libswscale6" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install libswscale6 on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libswscale6
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libswscale6" package

Learn how to uninstall libswscale6 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 libswscale6 package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: libswscale6
Source: ffmpeg
Version: 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 748
Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libavutil57 (= 7:5.1.4-0+deb12u1), libc6 (>= 2.34)
Description: FFmpeg library for image scaling and various conversions - runtime files
Description-md5: 5ab1f77fb1b78fa767ca99e4a7a7a9ea
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libswscale6_5.1.4-0+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 212388
MD5sum: f29ebda7a5fa44d53b9025004a4df3fc
SHA256: 2fd6bf0e37740df3f015224c3110fd13fbd3b2f105beef63338baf34c2f9ee3c