How To Install grilo-plugins-0.3-base on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is grilo-plugins-0.3-base
grilo-plugins-0.3-base is:
Grilo is a framework focused on making media discovery and browsing easy for application developers.
More precisely, Grilo provides:
- A single, high-level API that abstracts the differences among various media content providers, allowing application developers to integrate content from various services and sources easily.
- A collection of plugins for accessing content from various media providers. Developers can share efforts and code by writing plugins for the framework that are application agnostic.
- A flexible API that allows plugin developers to write plugins of various kinds.
This package contains these plugins officially distributed with Grilo:
- Bookmarks
- Filesystem
- Gravatar
- Jamendo
- Local metadata (album art and thumbnails)
- Metadata Store
- OpenSubtitles
- Optical Media
- Rai.tv
- SHOUTcast
- TheTVDB
- Tracker
- Lua Factory, with these Lua scripts:
- Acoustid
- Apple Movie Trailers
- Euronews
- The Guardian Videos
- iTunes Podcast
- Last.fm Cover
- Metrolyrics
- Musicbrainz Cover Art
- Radio France
- Spotify Cover
- TheGamesDB.net
- Video title parsing
There are three methods to install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
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 grilo-plugins-0.3-base Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
Install grilo-plugins-0.3-base Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
Install grilo-plugins-0.3-base 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 grilo-plugins-0.3-base
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
How To Uninstall grilo-plugins-0.3-base on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the grilo-plugins-0.3-base
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grilo-plugins-0.3-base
Uninstall grilo-plugins-0.3-base And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grilo-plugins-0.3-base
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grilo-plugins-0.3-base
Remove grilo-plugins-0.3-base Configurations and Data
To remove grilo-plugins-0.3-base
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grilo-plugins-0.3-base
Remove grilo-plugins-0.3-base configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grilo-plugins-0.3-base
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grilo-plugins-0.3-base
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grilo-plugins-0.3-base
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.