How To Install vlc-plugin-svg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-svg on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is vlc-plugin-svg
vlc-plugin-svg 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 plugin allows you to render SVG graphics on top of the video. It is a text renderer, and must be activated through the ‘–text-renderer svg’ option. When sent non-SVG data, it will convert it to SVG using a template that can be specified by the svg-template-file option.
There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-svg 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 vlc-plugin-svg 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-svg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-svg
Install vlc-plugin-svg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-svg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-svg
Install vlc-plugin-svg 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-svg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-svg
How To Uninstall vlc-plugin-svg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the vlc-plugin-svg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-svg
Uninstall vlc-plugin-svg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlc-plugin-svg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc-plugin-svg
Remove vlc-plugin-svg Configurations and Data
To remove vlc-plugin-svg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlc-plugin-svg
Remove vlc-plugin-svg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlc-plugin-svg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc-plugin-svg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-svg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
