How To Install mkvtoolnix-gui on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix-gui
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mkvtoolnix-gui
mkvtoolnix-gui is:
Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML.
The mmg tool is a graphical user interface for the mkvmerge program, which allow one to create Matroska files from other formats.
This package also contains a graphical version of the mkvinfo tool, which allow one to get information about a Matroska file.
There are three methods to install mkvtoolnix-gui
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mkvtoolnix-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix-gui
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mkvtoolnix-gui
Install mkvtoolnix-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix-gui
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mkvtoolnix-gui
Install mkvtoolnix-gui 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 mkvtoolnix-gui
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mkvtoolnix-gui
How To Uninstall mkvtoolnix-gui on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mkvtoolnix-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix-gui
Uninstall mkvtoolnix-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mkvtoolnix-gui
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkvtoolnix-gui
Remove mkvtoolnix-gui Configurations and Data
To remove mkvtoolnix-gui
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mkvtoolnix-gui
Remove mkvtoolnix-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mkvtoolnix-gui
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkvtoolnix-gui
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix-gui
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.