How to Install and Uninstall mkvtoolnix Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "mkvtoolnix" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install mkvtoolnix on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mkvtoolnix" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall mkvtoolnix on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mkvtoolnix package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mkvtoolnix
Priority: optional
Section: universe/graphics
Installed-Size: 16075
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Christian Marillat
Architecture: amd64
Version: 8.8.0-1
Depends: libboost-filesystem1.58.0, libboost-regex1.58.0, libboost-system1.58.0, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libebml4v5, libflac8 (>= 1.3.0), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4), libmagic1 (>= 5.12), libmatroska6v5, libogg0 (>= 1.0rc3), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libvorbis0a (>= 1.1.2), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: mkvtoolnix-gui
Filename: pool/universe/m/mkvtoolnix/mkvtoolnix_8.8.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 3424608
MD5sum: d94572d12333da2dc9fe726b81f09228
SHA1: 56cb877ca4324a0c76e5d88c7fbf19a71acb1f14
SHA256: 21cad70aae7e06dae1f784bc27aeccdc2bd8785c78b93e466a8719fbd6a2a9ae
Description-en: Set of command-line tools to work with Matroska files
Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible
Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML.
These tools allow one to manipulate Matroska files.
* mkvmerge is a tool to create Matroska files from other formats
* mkvinfo allow one to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file
* mkvextract can extract tracks from Matroska files to other formats
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This package only provides command-line tools. For graphical tools, you
should install the mkvtoolnix-gui package.
Description-md5: 0a49dc700e61a811ff94909c13977f82
Homepage: https://mkvtoolnix.download/index.html
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu