How To Install oggz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install oggz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. oggz-tools is utilities for mangling Ogg streams

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install oggz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is oggz-tools

oggz-tools is:

Oggz provides a simple programming interface for reading and writing Ogg files and streams.

This package contains some utilities useful for debugging and tweaking Ogg streams, using liboggz

There are three methods to install oggz-tools 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 oggz-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install oggz-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install oggz-tools

Install oggz-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install oggz-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install oggz-tools

Install oggz-tools 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 oggz-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oggz-tools

How To Uninstall oggz-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the oggz-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove oggz-tools

Uninstall oggz-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall oggz-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oggz-tools

Remove oggz-tools Configurations and Data

To remove oggz-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge oggz-tools

Remove oggz-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove oggz-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oggz-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install oggz-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.