How To Install mps-youtube on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mps-youtube
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mps-youtube
mps-youtube is:
This project is a terminal based YouTube client with an interactive text interface and in-built help. It can be used to search YouTube, create local playlists to queue your favourite content, play audio or video (launched in external player) and can download YouTube content in various formats (mp4, flv, webm, ogg, m4a, m4v and 3gp).
There are three methods to install mps-youtube
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 mps-youtube Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mps-youtube
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mps-youtube
Install mps-youtube Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mps-youtube
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mps-youtube
Install mps-youtube 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 mps-youtube
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mps-youtube
How To Uninstall mps-youtube on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mps-youtube
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mps-youtube
Uninstall mps-youtube And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mps-youtube
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mps-youtube
Remove mps-youtube Configurations and Data
To remove mps-youtube
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mps-youtube
Remove mps-youtube configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mps-youtube
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mps-youtube
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mps-youtube
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.