How To Install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps is:
GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.
This package contains helper programs from the “base” set, an essential exemplary set of elements. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
Package: gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.16.2-4 Priority: optional Section: utils Source: gst-plugins-base1.0 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Maintainers of GStreamer packages [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 220 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.40), libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.16.2), gstreamer1.0-tools Filename: pool/main/g/gst-plugins-base1.0/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps_1.16.2-4_amd64.deb Size: 71460 MD5sum: a98e6ca81fc85ad680a617740a2f706e SHA1: 6e6f233b4f8f36d5be4652fed92f4262e65d3e7d SHA256: d342f66ecd584f685f79f1f132bd2cb5c2dfe99d41e2fc373eae08b5c41d38b8 Homepage: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org Description-en: GStreamer helper programs from the “base” set GStreamer is a streaming media framework, based on graphs of filters which operate on media data. Applications using this library can do anything from real-time sound processing to playing videos, and just about anything else media-related. Its plugin-based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug-ins.
This package contains helper programs from the “base” set, an essential exemplary set of elements. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop
There are three methods to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
Install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
Install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
How To Uninstall gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
Uninstall gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
Remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps Configurations and Data
To remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
Remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.