How To Install theorur on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install theorur on Ubuntu 20.04. theorur is simple tool for Ogg/Theora streaming written in GTK+2

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install theorur on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is theorur

theorur is:

Graphical user interface written using GTK+2 for Ogg/Theora video and audio streaming over an Icecast2 system.

Theorur allows you to:

  1. take a feed from your IEEE1394 DV port, or a DV channel/device on your DV network. You could feed analog video through the A/V input on a DV camera;
  2. use IceCast servers, so you can send to an Icecast receiver, or to a hired IcesCast server hoster;
  3. taylor it to your upload bandwidth capacity;
  4. stream from your DV Camera, Firewire Sound Mixing desk (there a only a few applications that work with firewire mixers in GNU/Linux) and firewire DVD players.

There are three methods to install theorur 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 theorur Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install theorur

Install theorur Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install theorur using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install theorur

Install theorur 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 theorur using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install theorur

How To Uninstall theorur on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the theorur package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove theorur

Uninstall theorur And Its Dependencies

To uninstall theorur and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove theorur

Remove theorur Configurations and Data

To remove theorur configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge theorur

Remove theorur configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove theorur configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge theorur

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install theorur package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.