How to Install and Uninstall libavdevice58 Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "libavdevice58" package

Please follow the guidance below to install libavdevice58 on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libavdevice58
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libavdevice58" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall libavdevice58 on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libavdevice58
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libavdevice58 package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: libavdevice58
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Source: ffmpeg
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 272
Depends: libasound2 (>= 1.0.16), libavc1394-0 (>= 0.5.3), libavcodec58 (= 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1), libavfilter7 (= 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1), libavformat58 (= 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1), libavutil56 (= 7:4.3.1-4ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.28), libcaca0 (>= 0.99.beta17-1), libcdio-cdda2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libcdio-paranoia2 (>= 10.2+2.0.0), libdc1394-25 (>= 2.2.6), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.47), libgl1, libiec61883-0 (>= 1.2.0), libjack-jackd2-0 (>= 1.9.10+20150825) | libjack-0.125, libopenal1 (>= 1.14), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libraw1394-11 (>= 2.1.2), libsdl2-2.0-0 (>= 2.0.12+dfsg1), libsndio7.0 (>= 1.1.0), libx11-6, libxcb-shape0, libxcb-shm0, libxcb-xfixes0, libxcb1, libxext6, libxv1
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavdevice58_4.3.1-4ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 74708
MD5sum: f634bbe60f5e9ae8b1f7155db988345f
SHA1: 4e8d19989f99889f7642c0ae3c783de45e409bc7
SHA256: 14290048dff7305a6d4b23612cd107af277adfa9da78fe4d5ba77ab8563cfa9f
SHA512: b06a2372d1752bd264a2f66c9683802ae73b00d10d7e8a4ca5335a71cdc75329ab197116d81bbac89caeb3bc7d687a85f4e3e253b50fd235021f43f9a7cdf9c4
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Description-en: FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - runtime files
FFmpeg is the leading multimedia framework, able to decode, encode, transcode,
mux, demux, stream, filter and play pretty much anything that humans and
machines have created. It supports the most obscure ancient formats up to the
cutting edge.
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This library provides a generic framework for grabbing from and rendering to
many common multimedia input/output devices, and supports several input and
output devices, including Video4Linux2, VfW, DShow, and ALSA.
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This package contains the runtime files.
Description-md5: ad40bf128a0d66f1d4aa3d3f40dd7bff
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