How to Install and Uninstall libavdevice-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: April 30,2024

1. Install "libavdevice-dev" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libavdevice-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libavdevice-dev" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                libavdevice-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libavdevice-dev package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libavdevice-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7:4.4-6ubuntu5
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: ffmpeg
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 422
Depends: libavcodec-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libavdevice58 (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libavfilter-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libavformat-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libavutil-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libpostproc-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libswscale-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5), libswresample-dev (= 7:4.4-6ubuntu5)
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavdevice-dev_4.4-6ubuntu5_amd64.deb
Size: 97246
MD5sum: 9258ddacb311ba437422f4a8922fda51
SHA1: 77e4626bdd3a35a3ed2b72a36b5bf30499e7ebb9
SHA256: f9c60d88ead15db79256e294397a6468f098dee52fc3ef7ea6e01dcb52ec40d6
SHA512: 034909f9bade783eeaf9bb299ea0a94975716c218bd23d5255a5133d8acdfd89152af4d7b5294a9db3552f9024570b6a2f12963306cfae9d44af8380fb5d572c
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Description-en: FFmpeg library for handling input and output devices - development 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 development files.
Description-md5: 6c9d2502d27e23767fd8617f89f334a0