How to Install and Uninstall vpx-tools Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "vpx-tools" package

This guide let you learn how to install vpx-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                vpx-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "vpx-tools" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall vpx-tools on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: vpx-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libvpx
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastian Dröge
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1025
Depends: libvpx3 (= 1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvpx/vpx-tools_1.5.0-2ubuntu1.1_amd64.deb
Size: 207814
MD5sum: 7f6985dcc9e530d7fbc29a587ce85156
SHA1: a5ef5778b74e8257f4142bd8aca38814bcc38bb2
SHA256: 212f906c72287e1c10a632c3a87a2b305cf20adcfb71efc0a397a970585efba1
SHA512: cdb4f23fa600bd5d9bd15373e06165021d6d4f33cb9cc9d80ded2de330e4db2ff0ddf22e4439117aba500316df4851d11e0b070948472e652f1873dff079e676
Homepage: http://www.webmproject.org
Description-en: VP8 and VP9 video codec encoding/decoding tools
VP8 and VP9 are open video codecs, originally developed by On2 and released
as open source by Google Inc. They are the successor of the VP3 codec,
on which the Theora codec was based.
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This package contains the commandline tools vpxdec and vpxenc.
Description-md5: 41cd6c10fc838ed5f4e38bb18b5f43df

Package: vpx-tools
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 1025
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sebastian Dröge
Architecture: amd64
Source: libvpx
Version: 1.5.0-2ubuntu1
Depends: libvpx3 (= 1.5.0-2ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2)
Filename: pool/universe/libv/libvpx/vpx-tools_1.5.0-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 207732
MD5sum: 4c9fe1e1a7d7dbe15d76790dbc3d286a
SHA1: 77a1a14c99d3c048a4fc33cba972c9476663f31d
SHA256: 6b5ba9da5d6d820e426f812d9ea766f48191b74a3a0d28e8d7cdfee79cea0dc6
Description-en: VP8 and VP9 video codec encoding/decoding tools
VP8 and VP9 are open video codecs, originally developed by On2 and released
as open source by Google Inc. They are the successor of the VP3 codec,
on which the Theora codec was based.
.
This package contains the commandline tools vpxdec and vpxenc.
Description-md5: 41cd6c10fc838ed5f4e38bb18b5f43df
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: http://www.webmproject.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu