How To Install xmltv-gui 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 xmltv-gui on Ubuntu.

What is `xmltv-gui`

xmltv-gui is:

Gather television listings, process them and organize your viewing. XMLTV is a file format for storing TV listings, defined in xmltv.dtd.

This package includes the GUI (graphical user interface) front-end program tv_check.

There are three methods to install xmltv-gui 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 xmltv-gui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xmltv-gui

Install xmltv-gui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xmltv-gui

Install xmltv-gui 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 xmltv-gui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xmltv-gui

How To Uninstall xmltv-gui on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the xmltv-gui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xmltv-gui

Uninstall xmltv-gui And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xmltv-gui

Remove xmltv-gui Configurations and Data

To remove xmltv-gui configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xmltv-gui

Remove xmltv-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xmltv-gui

Dependencies

xmltv-gui have the following dependencies:

References

xmltv-gui website

Summary

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