How To Install mpv on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpv
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mpv
mpv is:
mpv is a movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. It supports a wide variety of video file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types.
Changes from mplayer2 to mpv include:
- Removal of lots of unneeded code to encourage developer activity
- Better OSD rendering
- Cleaned up terminal output
- Improved OpenGL output
- Encoding functionality (replacement for mencoder)
- Wayland support
- Support for playing URLs of popular streaming sites
- Screenshot improvements
- … See mpv(1) for more info regarding changes between MPlayer, mplayer2 and mpv.
There are three methods to install mpv
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 mpv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mpv
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mpv
Install mpv Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mpv
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mpv
Install mpv 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 mpv
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mpv
How To Uninstall mpv on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mpv
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mpv
Uninstall mpv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mpv
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpv
Remove mpv Configurations and Data
To remove mpv
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mpv
Remove mpv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mpv
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpv
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpv
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.