How To Install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer is:
This package contains Qt5 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 phonon4qt5-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 phonon4qt5-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 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon4qt5-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 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
How To Uninstall phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
Uninstall phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon4qt5-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 phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer Configurations and Data
To remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
