How To Install voctomix on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install voctomix on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is voctomix
voctomix is:
The Voctomix Project by the C3Voc (the Chaos Communication Congress’ Video Operation Crew) is their software implementation of a Live-Video-Mixer.
It is written in Python using GStreamer and consists of three parts:
- Voctocore, the videomixer core-process that does the actual video- and audio crunching.
- Voctogui, a GUI implementation in GTK+ controlling the core’s functionality and giving visual feedback of the mixed video.
- Voctomix Example Scripts, a collection of tools and examples for talking to the core-process, feeding and receiving video-streams and controlling operations from scripts or command-line.
This package depends on all the components and also contains the documentation and example scripts.
There are three methods to install voctomix 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 voctomix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install voctomix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install voctomix
Install voctomix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install voctomix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install voctomix
Install voctomix 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 voctomix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install voctomix
How To Uninstall voctomix on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the voctomix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove voctomix
Uninstall voctomix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall voctomix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove voctomix
Remove voctomix Configurations and Data
To remove voctomix configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge voctomix
Remove voctomix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove voctomix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge voctomix
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install voctomix package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
