How To Install tablet-encode on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tablet-encode on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tablet-encode
tablet-encode is:
tablet-encode can help with all these problems:
- It guarantees the output to be playable on a Nokia Internet Tablet using a system of “profiles”.
- It can rip and encode DVDs in a single step (dependent on mencoder version).
- It has a simple GUI interface for easily converting videos.
- It has a command-line interface so it can be easily scripted to interface to your PVR (for example, MythTV, Freevo or VDR).
- Presets allow tradeoff between space/quality to be decided on a per-video basis.
- Can optimise video size for the Internet Tablet’s 15:9 screen.
- Handles anamorphic video sources such as widescreen DVDs.
- Output works with either the built-in Media Player, or mplayer.
- GUI and command line modes.
There are three methods to install tablet-encode 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 tablet-encode Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tablet-encode using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tablet-encode
Install tablet-encode Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tablet-encode using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tablet-encode
Install tablet-encode 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 tablet-encode using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tablet-encode
How To Uninstall tablet-encode on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tablet-encode package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tablet-encode
Uninstall tablet-encode And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tablet-encode and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tablet-encode
Remove tablet-encode Configurations and Data
To remove tablet-encode configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tablet-encode
Remove tablet-encode configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tablet-encode configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tablet-encode
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tablet-encode package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
