How to Install and Uninstall phonon-backend-vlc Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 10,2024

1. Install "phonon-backend-vlc" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install phonon-backend-vlc on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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2. Uninstall "phonon-backend-vlc" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall phonon-backend-vlc on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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3. Information about the phonon-backend-vlc package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: phonon-backend-vlc
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 321
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.2-1ubuntu3
Provides: phonon-backend
Depends: vlc-nox, libc6 (>= 2.14), libphonon4 (>= 4:4.8.0~), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta1), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.7.0~beta2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), libvlc5 (>= 2.2.0~pre1), libvlccore8 (>= 2.0.0)
Recommends: vlc
Filename: pool/universe/p/phonon-backend-vlc/phonon-backend-vlc_0.8.2-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 90078
MD5sum: f6c82e494e0f27814967a5b1850638d7
SHA1: ca9f9737838b87bf72f39552ad7f09d779f4a877
SHA256: 8c8b733053d4f100e8ecf0039d2ba93b7472fced3ca72c8a2742df1bdb21e9bc
Description-en: Phonon VLC backend
Phonon is the Qt 4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented
abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio
and video content.
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This package contains VLC backend for Phonon.
Description-md5: f76513257d43cc5f5e025ea5f8084928
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon/phonon-vlc
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu