How To Install get-flash-videos on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install get-flash-videos on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is get-flash-videos
get-flash-videos is:
get-flash-videos download videos from various Flash-based video hosting sites, without having to use the Flash player. Handy for saving videos for watching offline, and means you don’t have to keep upgrading Flash for sites that insist on a newer version of the player.
Includes support for the following sites/players (and more!):
YouTube, eHow, Brightcove (used by many sites like Channel 4, Daily Telegraph …), BBC (news, etc), Metacafe, 5min, Google, fliqz, nicovideo, vimeo, Blip, Break, Collegehumor, Muzu, Sevenload, Megavideo, Wat.tv.
Also includes a ‘generic’ method which works on many other sites.
There are three methods to install get-flash-videos 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 get-flash-videos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install get-flash-videos using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install get-flash-videos
Install get-flash-videos Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install get-flash-videos using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install get-flash-videos
Install get-flash-videos 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 get-flash-videos using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install get-flash-videos
How To Uninstall get-flash-videos on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the get-flash-videos package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove get-flash-videos
Uninstall get-flash-videos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall get-flash-videos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove get-flash-videos
Remove get-flash-videos Configurations and Data
To remove get-flash-videos configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge get-flash-videos
Remove get-flash-videos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove get-flash-videos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge get-flash-videos
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install get-flash-videos package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
