How To Install gst123 on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on Ubuntu 22.04. gst123 is GStreamer based command line media player

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is gst123

gst123 is:

The program gst123 is designed to be a more flexible command line player in the spirit of ogg123 and mpg123, based on GStreamer. It plays all file formats supported by GStreamer, so if you have audio/video collections which contain different file formats, like flac, ogg and mp3, you can use gst123 to play all your audio/video files.

There are three methods to install gst123 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 gst123 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gst123 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gst123

Install gst123 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gst123 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gst123

Install gst123 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 gst123 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gst123

How To Uninstall gst123 on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the gst123 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gst123

Uninstall gst123 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gst123 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gst123

Remove gst123 Configurations and Data

To remove gst123 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gst123

Remove gst123 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gst123 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gst123

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gst123 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.