How to Install and Uninstall vdpau-va-driver Package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "vdpau-va-driver" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install vdpau-va-driver on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)


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

This guide let you learn how to uninstall vdpau-va-driver on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):


    
        
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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-va-driver package on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

Package: vdpau-va-driver
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.7.4-6ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Source: vdpau-video
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 111
Provides: va-driver
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libvdpau1 (>= 0.2), libx11-6, libva-driver-abi-1.0
Enhances: libva2
Filename: pool/universe/v/vdpau-video/vdpau-va-driver_0.7.4-6ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 40092
MD5sum: 5a54cccd6932da9bcb8d6ae61b2c36d2
SHA1: 927c2d6b7534ac237ba1a06a8caabf4cddb46888
SHA256: 11e2032689d811ba04d807372827f653c010a66c47d4ad8607cb77c0c711f7d2
Homepage: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/vaapi/
Description: VDPAU-based backend for VA API
Description-md5: 0307608e0cb547dec167ffd342fff3f4