How To Install yamidecode on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install libyami-utils

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is yamidecode and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install yamidecode on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install yamidecode using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install yamidecode using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libyami-utils

Install yamidecode using apt

Because yamidecode is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install yamidecode using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libyami-utils

Install yamidecode using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install yamidecode by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libyami-utils

How to upgrade (update) a single package yamidecode using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the yamidecode, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install libyami-utils

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install libyami-utils

How To Uninstall yamidecode from Debian 11

To uninstall only the yamidecode package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libyami-utils

Uninstall yamidecode and all its dependencies

To uninstall yamidecode and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libyami-utils

Remove yamidecode with all configurations and data

To remove yamidecode configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libyami-utils

Remove yamidecode completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to yamidecode package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libyami-utils

Extra info and code examples

Video Acceleration API (VA API) is a library ("libVA") and API specification which enables and provides access to graphics hardware (GPU) acceleration for video processing on Linux and UNIX based operating systems. Accelerated processing includes video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending and rendering. libyami builds on top of libva, and provides high level API for video processing. It will help with bitstream parsing, reference frame management, etc. This package provides decoder/encoder/vpp programs using libyami.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install yamidecode using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the yamidecode from Debian 11.

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