How To Install gnash on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnash on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnash
gnash is:
GNU Gnash is a free GPL’d SWF player. It runs as a standalone application on either the desktop or embedded devices, or may be used as a plugin for several popular browsers. It supports playing media from a disk or streaming over a network connection.
GNU Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9. SWF v10 is not supported by GNU Gnash.
Included in the Gnash is an XML based messaging system, as specified in the SWF specification. This lets a SWF animation communicate over a TCP/IP socket, and parse the incoming XML message. This lets an animation be a remote control for other devices or applications.
This package includes the standalone GTK+-based player that use AGG as the rendering backend.
There are three methods to install gnash 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 gnash Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnash using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnash
Install gnash Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnash using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnash
Install gnash 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 gnash using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnash
How To Uninstall gnash on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnash package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnash
Uninstall gnash And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnash and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnash
Remove gnash Configurations and Data
To remove gnash configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnash
Remove gnash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnash configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnash
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnash package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
