How To Install libvisual-0.4-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual-0.4-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libvisual-0.4-plugins
libvisual-0.4-plugins 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 plugins for the libvisual audio visualization framework.
There are three methods to install libvisual-0.4-plugins 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-plugins 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-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libvisual-0.4-plugins
Install libvisual-0.4-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libvisual-0.4-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libvisual-0.4-plugins
Install libvisual-0.4-plugins 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-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libvisual-0.4-plugins
How To Uninstall libvisual-0.4-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libvisual-0.4-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libvisual-0.4-plugins
Uninstall libvisual-0.4-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libvisual-0.4-plugins 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-plugins
Remove libvisual-0.4-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove libvisual-0.4-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libvisual-0.4-plugins
Remove libvisual-0.4-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libvisual-0.4-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libvisual-0.4-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libvisual-0.4-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
