How To Install libphonon4 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libphonon4
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libphonon4
libphonon4 is:
Phonon is the Qt 4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.
This package contains the core library of the Phonon cross-platform multimedia framework from KDE. It is required to run applications that use Phonon.
There are three methods to install libphonon4
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 libphonon4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libphonon4
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libphonon4
Install libphonon4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libphonon4
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libphonon4
Install libphonon4 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 libphonon4
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libphonon4
How To Uninstall libphonon4 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libphonon4
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libphonon4
Uninstall libphonon4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libphonon4
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libphonon4
Remove libphonon4 Configurations and Data
To remove libphonon4
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libphonon4
Remove libphonon4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libphonon4
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libphonon4
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libphonon4
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.