How To Install python-hachoir-metadata on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hachoir-metadata on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is python-hachoir-metadata
python-hachoir-metadata is:
hachoir-metadata extracts metadata from multimedia files: music, picture, video, but also archives. It supports most common file formats:
- Archives: bzip2, gzip, zip, tar
- Audio: MPEG audio (“MP3”), WAV, Sun/NeXT audio, Ogg/Vorbis (OGG), MIDI, AIFF, AIFC, Real audio (RA)
- Image: BMP, CUR, EMF, ICO, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WMF, XCF
- Video: ASF format (WMV video), AVI, Matroska (MKV), Quicktime (MOV), Ogg/Theora, Real media (RM)
It tries to give as much information as possible. For some file formats, it gives really more information than libextractor for example. RIFF parser is really good for example, it can extract creation date, software used to generate the file, etc. But hachoir-metadata can not guess information. The most complex operation is just to compute duration of a music using frame size and file size.
hachoir-metadata has three modes:
- classic mode: extract metadata, you can use –level=LEVEL to limit quantity of information to display (and not to extract)
- –type: show on one line the file format and most important information
- –mime: just display file MIME type
The command ‘hachoir-metadata –mime’ works like ‘file –mime’, and ‘hachoir-metadata –type’ like ‘file’. But today file command supports more file formats then hachoir-metadata.
There are three methods to install python-hachoir-metadata 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 python-hachoir-metadata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python-hachoir-metadata using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python-hachoir-metadata
Install python-hachoir-metadata Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python-hachoir-metadata using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python-hachoir-metadata
Install python-hachoir-metadata 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 python-hachoir-metadata using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python-hachoir-metadata
How To Uninstall python-hachoir-metadata on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the python-hachoir-metadata package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python-hachoir-metadata
Uninstall python-hachoir-metadata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python-hachoir-metadata and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python-hachoir-metadata
Remove python-hachoir-metadata Configurations and Data
To remove python-hachoir-metadata configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python-hachoir-metadata
Remove python-hachoir-metadata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python-hachoir-metadata configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python-hachoir-metadata
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python-hachoir-metadata package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
