How to Install and Uninstall libavdevice-dev Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 21,2024

1. Install "libavdevice-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to install libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall libavdevice-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libavdevice-dev package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: libavdevice-dev
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1
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: 400
Depends: libavcodec-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libavdevice-ffmpeg56 (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libavfilter-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libavformat-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libavresample-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libavutil-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libpostproc-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libswscale-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1), libswresample-dev (= 7:2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1)
Conflicts: libavdevice-libav-dev
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavdevice-dev_2.8.17-0ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
Size: 83408
MD5sum: 1c73ead201409a596f1d1d3f59568789
SHA1: 3c759da3c9aa11744c05964aa948939b85f8730a
SHA256: 542550f126ba98f198fa96440ea6315cb8c306e47a7f51d5d9550c4f6024769a
SHA512: efe8e1e81701cb3d0e5decd5b3217ff4444cfb1c4a20ba564fb81d87827e676809ef6214847dbfde90a2625667756d89e9b8f8ae5de393186662abc5b9242b10
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.
.
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.
.
This package contains the development files.
Description-md5: 6c9d2502d27e23767fd8617f89f334a0
Supported: 5y

Package: libavdevice-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Source: ffmpeg
Version: 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2
Depends: libavcodec-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libavdevice-ffmpeg56 (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libavfilter-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libavformat-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libavresample-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libavutil-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libpostproc-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libswscale-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2), libswresample-dev (= 7:2.8.6-1ubuntu2)
Conflicts: libavdevice-libav-dev
Filename: pool/universe/f/ffmpeg/libavdevice-dev_2.8.6-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 83380
MD5sum: 82c825e8be9402fad0790b66a6ef51e1
SHA1: ad0ae325dbb583a5bf1dbb5e03e953555cea3e5a
SHA256: adc0dea5477d0e39d2e1cb68190b1d597762b834769696057823d92022eca00b
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.
.
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.
.
This package contains the development files.
Description-md5: 6c9d2502d27e23767fd8617f89f334a0
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://ffmpeg.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m