How To Install vlc-plugin-qt 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 vlc-plugin-qt on Ubuntu.

What is `vlc-plugin-qt`

vlc-plugin-qt is:

VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

This package contains VLC’s Qt interface.

There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-qt 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 vlc-plugin-qt Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-qt

Install vlc-plugin-qt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-qt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-qt

Install vlc-plugin-qt 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 vlc-plugin-qt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-qt

How To Uninstall vlc-plugin-qt on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the vlc-plugin-qt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-qt

Uninstall vlc-plugin-qt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc-plugin-qt

Remove vlc-plugin-qt Configurations and Data

To remove vlc-plugin-qt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vlc-plugin-qt

Remove vlc-plugin-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vlc-plugin-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc-plugin-qt

Dependencies

vlc-plugin-qt have the following dependencies:

References

vlc-plugin-qt website

Summary

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