How To Install phonon4qt5 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 phonon4qt5 on Ubuntu.
What is phonon4qt5
phonon4qt5 is:
Phonon Qt 5 is a multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.
This metapackage ensures that the system has a working Phonon configuration installed (the core library and at least one back-end).
There are three methods to install phonon4qt5 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 phonon4qt5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon4qt5
Install phonon4qt5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon4qt5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon4qt5
Install phonon4qt5 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 phonon4qt5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon4qt5
How To Uninstall phonon4qt5 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the phonon4qt5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon4qt5
Uninstall phonon4qt5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon4qt5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon4qt5
Remove phonon4qt5 Configurations and Data
To remove phonon4qt5 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon4qt5
Remove phonon4qt5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon4qt5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon4qt5
Dependencies
phonon4qt5 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon4qt5 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.