How To Install vlc-plugin-qt on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-qt
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is vlc-plugin-qt
vlc-plugin-qt is:
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.
This package contains VLC’s Qt interface.
There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-qt
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vlc-plugin-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-qt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-qt
Install vlc-plugin-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-qt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-qt
Install vlc-plugin-qt 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 vlc-plugin-qt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-qt
How To Uninstall vlc-plugin-qt on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the vlc-plugin-qt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-qt
Uninstall vlc-plugin-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlc-plugin-qt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc-plugin-qt
Remove vlc-plugin-qt Configurations and Data
To remove vlc-plugin-qt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlc-plugin-qt
Remove vlc-plugin-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlc-plugin-qt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc-plugin-qt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-qt
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.