How To Install ffmsindex on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmsindex on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ffmsindex
ffmsindex is:
A cross platform ffmpeg wrapper library, and some additional content for things ffmpeg doesn’t handle well. A more friendly API and an easy way to say “open and decompress this, I don’t care how”.
This package contain a command line indexer tool. Used to create index files which can later be used by applications which are useing ffms2 to speed up loading of multimedia files.
There are three methods to install ffmsindex on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ffmsindex Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ffmsindex
Install ffmsindex Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ffmsindex using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ffmsindex
Install ffmsindex 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 ffmsindex using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ffmsindex
How To Uninstall ffmsindex on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ffmsindex package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ffmsindex
Uninstall ffmsindex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ffmsindex and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ffmsindex
Remove ffmsindex Configurations and Data
To remove ffmsindex configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ffmsindex
Remove ffmsindex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ffmsindex configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ffmsindex
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ffmsindex package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.