How To Install vokoscreen-ng on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vokoscreen-ng
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vokoscreen-ng
vokoscreen-ng is:
vokoscreenNG can be used to record videos from computers screen, webcams, external cameras, etc. This graphical tool can produce educational videos, live recordings of browser navigation, tutorials of installations, record videoconferences, etc. You can capture an alone video or video and sound.
This program can save files in some formats and use some codecs for video and audio:
- Video: x264, VP8, H.264 (Intel GPU) and MPEG-2 (Intel GPU).
- Audio: vorbis, flac, opus and mp3.
- File : mkv, webm, avi, mp4 and mov.
vokoscreenNG is a modern full replacement for vokoscreen, both written by Volker Kohaupt. The main difference is that vokoscreen uses ffmpeg as base, while vokoscreenNG has been rewritten from scratch and is based in GStreamer.
There are three methods to install vokoscreen-ng
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 vokoscreen-ng Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vokoscreen-ng
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vokoscreen-ng
Install vokoscreen-ng Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vokoscreen-ng
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vokoscreen-ng
Install vokoscreen-ng 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 vokoscreen-ng
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vokoscreen-ng
How To Uninstall vokoscreen-ng on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vokoscreen-ng
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vokoscreen-ng
Uninstall vokoscreen-ng And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vokoscreen-ng
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vokoscreen-ng
Remove vokoscreen-ng Configurations and Data
To remove vokoscreen-ng
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vokoscreen-ng
Remove vokoscreen-ng configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vokoscreen-ng
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vokoscreen-ng
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vokoscreen-ng
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.