How to Install and Uninstall vdpau-driver-all Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: January 23,2025

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "vdpau-driver-all" package

Please follow the instructions below to install vdpau-driver-all on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "vdpau-driver-all" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall vdpau-driver-all 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 vdpau-driver-all package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: vdpau-driver-all
Source: libvdpau
Version: 1.5-2
Installed-Size: 14
Maintainer: Debian NVIDIA Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libvdpau-va-gl1, mesa-vdpau-drivers
Suggests: nvidia-vdpau-driver, nvidia-tesla-440-vdpau-driver, nvidia-tesla-418-vdpau-driver, nvidia-legacy-390xx-vdpau-driver, nvidia-legacy-340xx-vdpau-driver, vdpau-driver
Description: Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (driver metapackage)
Description-md5: 848ae3d77f772ea9bc53a8608bcf347d
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU/
Section: video
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libv/libvdpau/vdpau-driver-all_1.5-2_amd64.deb
Size: 4348
MD5sum: 5c950dc9807d5c9ca587687ec224a554
SHA256: e190678a529e3b75913070c7034884862a035bb7988685387bbd9e57bfd21d91