How To Install lives on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lives on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is lives
lives is:
LiVES is a Video Editing system allowing both novice and advanced users to edit and create video straight away. It can also be used as a VJ tool, and can be scripted and controlled remotely.
There are three methods to install lives 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 lives Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lives using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lives
Install lives Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lives using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lives
Install lives 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 lives using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lives
How To Uninstall lives on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the lives package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lives
Uninstall lives And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lives and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lives
Remove lives Configurations and Data
To remove lives configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lives
Remove lives configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lives configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lives
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lives package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.