How To Install phonon-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is phonon-backend-gstreamer
phonon-backend-gstreamer is:
This package contains GStreamer 1.0 backend for Phonon multimedia framework. It transparently adapts and reroutes all requests from Phonon applications to the GStreamer framework which in turn performs requested audio/video decoding/capture tasks.
You should install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good to get support for playing popular free multimedia formats and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly to get support for popular MPEG audio formats like MP3.
There are three methods to install phonon-backend-gstreamer 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
How To Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the phonon-backend-gstreamer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-gstreamer
Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer Configurations and Data
To remove phonon-backend-gstreamer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon-backend-gstreamer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
