How to Install and Uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 22,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "mesa-vdpau-drivers" package

Please follow the steps below to install mesa-vdpau-drivers on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mesa-vdpau-drivers" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall mesa-vdpau-drivers 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 mesa-vdpau-drivers package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: mesa-vdpau-drivers
Source: mesa
Version: 22.3.6-1+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 12090
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force
Architecture: amd64
Provides: vdpau-driver
Depends: libvdpau1, libc6 (>= 2.34), libdrm-amdgpu1 (>= 2.4.110), libdrm-nouveau2 (>= 2.4.66), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.31), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.75), libelf1 (>= 0.142), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.4), libllvm15, libstdc++6 (>= 11), libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.8.4), libxcb-dri2-0 (>= 1.8), libxcb-dri3-0, libxcb-present0, libxcb-sync1, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1 (>= 1.9.2), libxshmfence1, libzstd1 (>= 1.5.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Enhances: libvdpau1
Description: Mesa VDPAU video acceleration drivers
Description-md5: 19cfba61e1be17ccf30d9c5bb9ec109a
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://mesa3d.org/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/m/mesa/mesa-vdpau-drivers_22.3.6-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 3180996
MD5sum: 7562ba504147d5b15ac613cf5c9cbab1
SHA256: 7be16f31ad744f1be6e6985cff27c33732585ee4e7b19cc908cb7607a340d51e