How To Install plasma-mediacenter on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-mediacenter on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is plasma-mediacenter
plasma-mediacenter is:
KDE Plasma Media Center is aimed towards unified media experience on PCs, tablets, netbooks, TVs and any device capable of running KDE software. Plasma Media Center can be used to view images, play music or watch videos.
There are three methods to install plasma-mediacenter 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 plasma-mediacenter Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-mediacenter using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-mediacenter
Install plasma-mediacenter Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-mediacenter using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-mediacenter
Install plasma-mediacenter 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 plasma-mediacenter using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-mediacenter
How To Uninstall plasma-mediacenter on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the plasma-mediacenter package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-mediacenter
Uninstall plasma-mediacenter And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-mediacenter and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-mediacenter
Remove plasma-mediacenter Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-mediacenter configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-mediacenter
Remove plasma-mediacenter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-mediacenter configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-mediacenter
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-mediacenter package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
