How to Install and Uninstall libx264-dev Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "libx264-dev" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install libx264-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                libx264-dev
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "libx264-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall libx264-dev on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                libx264-dev
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libx264-dev package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: libx264-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2:0.160.3011+gitcde9a93-2.1
Multi-Arch: same
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Source: x264
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 2749
Depends: libx264-160 (= 2:0.160.3011+gitcde9a93-2.1)
Filename: pool/universe/x/x264/libx264-dev_0.160.3011+gitcde9a93-2.1_amd64.deb
Size: 650742
MD5sum: 32989d0a4aad3664dde1074b0c41c32f
SHA1: 4d16b070c4d513d364f12fe673810e036cdda1c3
SHA256: 5c15f2b98b503adad78e1acd31368ff34ee404b2963535724698cd8341f46dca
SHA512: d37c2cc21b65cee0cf7f6fd82b25180f7e455bfd5c0d00597302c24c9ffa0063555e1177a4ad5319eda024a420206a30b68edc2ec2d930fc08913a56c369bac2
Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/developers/x264.html
Description-en: development files for libx264
libx264 is an advanced encoding library for creating H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC)
video streams.
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This package contains the static library and headers used to build programs
that use libx264.
Description-md5: c388be3f239b40b3671f263fd2b72600