How To Install kdemultimedia on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdemultimedia on Ubuntu 22.04. kdemultimedia is multimedia applications from the official KDE release

Introduction

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

What is kdemultimedia

kdemultimedia is:

KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.

This metapackage includes multimedia applications provided with the official release of KDE.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kdemultimedia

Install kdemultimedia Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kdemultimedia

Install kdemultimedia 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 kdemultimedia using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kdemultimedia

How To Uninstall kdemultimedia on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove kdemultimedia

Uninstall kdemultimedia And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdemultimedia

Remove kdemultimedia Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kdemultimedia

Remove kdemultimedia configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdemultimedia

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Summary

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