How To Install multimedia-tasks on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-tasks on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is multimedia-tasks
multimedia-tasks is:
This package provides Debian Multimedia tasks in tasksel.
There are three methods to install multimedia-tasks 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 multimedia-tasks 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-tasks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-tasks
Install multimedia-tasks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-tasks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multimedia-tasks
Install multimedia-tasks 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-tasks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-tasks
How To Uninstall multimedia-tasks on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the multimedia-tasks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multimedia-tasks
Uninstall multimedia-tasks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multimedia-tasks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-tasks
Remove multimedia-tasks Configurations and Data
To remove multimedia-tasks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-tasks
Remove multimedia-tasks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multimedia-tasks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-tasks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-tasks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
