How To Install multimedia-players on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-players
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is multimedia-players
multimedia-players is:
This metapackage will install additional ‘consumer’ multimedia software.
There are three methods to install multimedia-players
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 multimedia-players Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-players
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-players
Install multimedia-players Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-players
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multimedia-players
Install multimedia-players 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 multimedia-players
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-players
How To Uninstall multimedia-players on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the multimedia-players
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multimedia-players
Uninstall multimedia-players And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multimedia-players
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-players
Remove multimedia-players Configurations and Data
To remove multimedia-players
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-players
Remove multimedia-players configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multimedia-players
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-players
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-players
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.