How To Install mplayer on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mplayer on Ubuntu.
What is mplayer
mplayer is:
MPlayer plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo, yuv4mpeg, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, RealPlayer, and Win32 DLL codecs. It can also play VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, RealMedia, and DivX movies.
Another big feature of MPlayer is the wide range of supported output drivers. It works with X11, Xv, DGA, OpenGL, SVGAlib, fbdev, but also SDL.
Not all of the upstream code is distributed in the source tarball. See the README.Debian and copyright files for details.
There are three methods to install mplayer on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mplayer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mplayer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mplayer
Install mplayer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mplayer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mplayer
Install mplayer 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 mplayer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mplayer
How To Uninstall mplayer on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the mplayer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mplayer
Uninstall mplayer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mplayer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mplayer
Remove mplayer Configurations and Data
To remove mplayer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mplayer
Remove mplayer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mplayer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mplayer
Dependencies
mplayer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mplayer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.