How To Install sreview-detect on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sreview-detect on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sreview-detect
sreview-detect is:
SReview is a video review and transcoding system. It allows users to review videos, and will then (after the review has finished) transcode them into archive-quality video files.
This package contains the sreview-detect script, which probes files in the input directory and either adds them to the database if they’re new, or just updates their length if they’re already known.
There are three methods to install sreview-detect 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 sreview-detect Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sreview-detect using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sreview-detect
Install sreview-detect Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sreview-detect using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sreview-detect
Install sreview-detect 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 sreview-detect using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sreview-detect
How To Uninstall sreview-detect on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sreview-detect package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sreview-detect
Uninstall sreview-detect And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sreview-detect and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sreview-detect
Remove sreview-detect Configurations and Data
To remove sreview-detect configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sreview-detect
Remove sreview-detect configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sreview-detect configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sreview-detect
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sreview-detect package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
