How To Install totem-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install totem-plugins
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is totem-plugins
totem-plugins is:
Totem is a simple yet featureful media player for GNOME which can read a large number of file formats.
This package contains a set of recommended plugins for Totem:
* Control Totem with an Infrared remote control
* Control Totem with the keyboard's media player keys
* Display movie properties
* Deactivate the screensaver when a movie is playing
* Skip to a defined time in the movie
* Set the away status in the instant messenger when a movie is
playing
* Control totem with a mobile phone using the Bluetooth protocol
* Share the current playlist via HTTP
* Search, browse for and play videos from YouTube
Additional plugins can be written in C or Python. Task: ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install totem-plugins
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 totem-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install totem-plugins
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install totem-plugins
Install totem-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install totem-plugins
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install totem-plugins
Install totem-plugins 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 totem-plugins
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install totem-plugins
How To Uninstall totem-plugins on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the totem-plugins
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove totem-plugins
Uninstall totem-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall totem-plugins
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove totem-plugins
Remove totem-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove totem-plugins
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge totem-plugins
Remove totem-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove totem-plugins
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge totem-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install totem-plugins
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.