How To Install gstreamer1.0-packagekit on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1.0-packagekit on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gstreamer1.0-packagekit
gstreamer1.0-packagekit is:
PackageKit allows performing simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers.
This package provides a plugin for the GStreamer multimedia framework to search and to install audio and video codecs. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gstreamer1.0-packagekit Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.1.13-2ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: libs Source: packagekit Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 56 Depends: packagekit (= 1.1.13-2ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 0.9.4) Recommends: gnome-software | apper | packagekit-installer Conflicts: gstreamer0.10-packagekit Replaces: gstreamer0.10-packagekit Filename: pool/main/p/packagekit/gstreamer1.0-packagekit_1.1.13-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 8840 MD5sum: 8ae71de19df93b7983ad7491c0fc7615 SHA1: a2ca801b3b4b62387973d13b79de5e2a7125256d SHA256: efce8090e7dbe7f4850b70e79a1a3ee9ad3be3e7dc929fd92f8ca3954dfb36dc Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/ Description-en: GStreamer plugin to install codecs using PackageKit PackageKit allows performing simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers.
This package provides a plugin for the GStreamer multimedia framework to search and to install audio and video codecs. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gstreamer1.0-packagekit 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 gstreamer1.0-packagekit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gstreamer1.0-packagekit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gstreamer1.0-packagekit
Install gstreamer1.0-packagekit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gstreamer1.0-packagekit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gstreamer1.0-packagekit
Install gstreamer1.0-packagekit 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 gstreamer1.0-packagekit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gstreamer1.0-packagekit
How To Uninstall gstreamer1.0-packagekit on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gstreamer1.0-packagekit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gstreamer1.0-packagekit
Uninstall gstreamer1.0-packagekit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gstreamer1.0-packagekit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gstreamer1.0-packagekit
Remove gstreamer1.0-packagekit Configurations and Data
To remove gstreamer1.0-packagekit configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gstreamer1.0-packagekit
Remove gstreamer1.0-packagekit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gstreamer1.0-packagekit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gstreamer1.0-packagekit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gstreamer1.0-packagekit package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.