How To Install phonon-backend-vlc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-vlc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is phonon-backend-vlc
phonon-backend-vlc is:
Phonon is the Qt 4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.
This package contains VLC backend for Phonon.
There are three methods to install phonon-backend-vlc 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-vlc 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-vlc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon-backend-vlc
Install phonon-backend-vlc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-vlc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon-backend-vlc
Install phonon-backend-vlc 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-vlc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon-backend-vlc
How To Uninstall phonon-backend-vlc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the phonon-backend-vlc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-vlc
Uninstall phonon-backend-vlc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon-backend-vlc 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-vlc
Remove phonon-backend-vlc Configurations and Data
To remove phonon-backend-vlc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon-backend-vlc
Remove phonon-backend-vlc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon-backend-vlc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon-backend-vlc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-vlc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
