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

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "libmatroska-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libmatroska-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall libmatroska-dev on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: libmatroska-dev
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Installed-Size: 2210
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Source: libmatroska
Version: 1.4.4-1
Depends: libmatroska6v5 (= 1.4.4-1), libebml-dev (>= 1.3.3)
Filename: pool/universe/libm/libmatroska/libmatroska-dev_1.4.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 145438
MD5sum: 4045851104153280c274a4523d450097
SHA1: f5924b3d52042bed4f73198791095df7946fe206
SHA256: e9f6a5401a20828c934e7460fcf1c77389e8cb5f74fa1b114c0ff137f391548b
Description-en: extensible open standard audio/video container format (development files)
Matroska is aiming to become the standard of Multimedia
Container Formats one day. It is based on EBML (Extensible Binary
Meta Language), a kind of binary version of XML. This way the
significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility
are gained without breaking file support in old parsers.
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This package contains the header files and static libraries needed to
compile applications that use libmatroska.
Description-md5: e540f73aa5eb543cd7a5e0cb371615b5
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.matroska.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m