How To Install phonon4qt5 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is phonon4qt5
phonon4qt5 is:
Phonon Qt 5 is a multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.
This metapackage ensures that the system has a working Phonon configuration installed (the core library and at least one back-end). Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video
There are three methods to install phonon4qt5
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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 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
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon4qt5
Install phonon4qt5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon4qt5
Install phonon4qt5 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
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon4qt5
How To Uninstall phonon4qt5 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the phonon4qt5
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon4qt5
Uninstall phonon4qt5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon4qt5
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon4qt5
Remove phonon4qt5 Configurations and Data
To remove phonon4qt5
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon4qt5
Remove phonon4qt5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon4qt5
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon4qt5
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.