How To Install mplayer-skins on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mplayer-skins on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mplayer-skins
mplayer-skins is:
Mplayer plays most mpeg, avi and asf files, supported by many native and win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VCD, DVD and even DivX movies too. The other big feature of mplayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, but you can use SDL (and this way all drivers of SDL) and some lowlevel card-specific drivers (for Matrox/3dfx/SiS) too! Most of them supports software or hardware scaling, so you can enjoy movies in fullscreen.
This package contains only some skins for mplayer
There are three methods to install mplayer-skins 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 mplayer-skins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mplayer-skins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mplayer-skins
Install mplayer-skins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mplayer-skins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mplayer-skins
Install mplayer-skins 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 mplayer-skins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mplayer-skins
How To Uninstall mplayer-skins on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mplayer-skins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mplayer-skins
Uninstall mplayer-skins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mplayer-skins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mplayer-skins
Remove mplayer-skins Configurations and Data
To remove mplayer-skins configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mplayer-skins
Remove mplayer-skins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mplayer-skins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mplayer-skins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mplayer-skins package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
