How To Install oggvideotools 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 oggvideotools on Ubuntu.

What is oggvideotools

oggvideotools is:

Contains the following command line tools:

• oggCat - concatenates two ogg video files
• oggCut - extracts parts of an ogg file
• oggDump
• oggJoin - multiplexes ogg streams
• oggLength
• oggTranscode - resizes ogg files in multiple ways
• oggScroll
• oggSilence
• oggSlideshow - creates slideshows from pictures
• oggSplit - demultiplexes ogv files
• oggThumb - creates thumbnails from an ogg video file

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install oggvideotools

Install oggvideotools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install oggvideotools

Install oggvideotools 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 oggvideotools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install oggvideotools

How To Uninstall oggvideotools on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove oggvideotools

Uninstall oggvideotools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove oggvideotools

Remove oggvideotools Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge oggvideotools

Remove oggvideotools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oggvideotools

Dependencies

oggvideotools have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libgd3
• libstdc++6
• libtheora0
• libvorbis0a
• libvorbisenc2

References

• oggvideotools website

Summary

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