How To Install vdr-plugin-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-examples on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is vdr-plugin-examples
vdr-plugin-examples is:
Video Disk Recorder (VDR) is a digital sat-receiver program using Linux and DVB technologies. It allows one to record MPEG2 streams, as well as output the stream to TV.
This package contains the example-plugins hello, osddemo, svccli, svcsvr, skincurses, status and svdrpdemo from the vdr-source. These plugins do not have useful features, they only demonstrate how vdr-plugins work and what is possible to do with them.
There are three methods to install vdr-plugin-examples 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 vdr-plugin-examples Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-examples using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vdr-plugin-examples
Install vdr-plugin-examples Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-examples using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vdr-plugin-examples
Install vdr-plugin-examples 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 vdr-plugin-examples using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vdr-plugin-examples
How To Uninstall vdr-plugin-examples on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the vdr-plugin-examples package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vdr-plugin-examples
Uninstall vdr-plugin-examples And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vdr-plugin-examples and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vdr-plugin-examples
Remove vdr-plugin-examples Configurations and Data
To remove vdr-plugin-examples configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vdr-plugin-examples
Remove vdr-plugin-examples configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vdr-plugin-examples configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vdr-plugin-examples
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-examples package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
