How To Install libvisual-0.4-0 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual-0.4-0 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libvisual-0.4-0
libvisual-0.4-0 is:
Libvisual is a generic visualization framework that allows applications to easily access and manage visualization plugins.
Audio visualization is the process of making pretty moving images that are correlated in some way to the audio currently being played by a media player. Most audio visualization is tied to a specific application or media player, making it difficult to share code. Libvisual allows applications to use existing visualization plugins written for the libvisual framework.
This package provides the runtime libraries for libvisual. Libvisual is not very useful without visualization plugins, so it is highly recommended to install the libvisual-0.4-plugins package.
There are three methods to install libvisual-0.4-0 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 libvisual-0.4-0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libvisual-0.4-0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvisual-0.4-0
Install libvisual-0.4-0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvisual-0.4-0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvisual-0.4-0
Install libvisual-0.4-0 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 libvisual-0.4-0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvisual-0.4-0
How To Uninstall libvisual-0.4-0 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libvisual-0.4-0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-0
Uninstall libvisual-0.4-0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvisual-0.4-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libvisual-0.4-0
Remove libvisual-0.4-0 Configurations and Data
To remove libvisual-0.4-0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvisual-0.4-0
Remove libvisual-0.4-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvisual-0.4-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvisual-0.4-0
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual-0.4-0 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
