Install transcode-utils on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install transcode-utils

Learn how to install transcode-utils with the command sudo apt-get install transcode-utils on Ubuntus.


 

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Quick installation of transcode-utils:

Step 1: Update system:

	sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install: transcode-utils

Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:

	sudo apt-get install transcode-utils

Package Details

Package:transcode-utils
Version:3:1.1.5-0ubuntu10
Maintainer:Alessio Treglia
Home page:http://tcforge.berlios.de/
Description:Transcode utility programs Transcode is yet another Linux text-console utility to encode raw video/audio streams extracted from, for example, DVD or Digital Video sources to DivX;-) or OpenDivX AVI files. . Its modular concept is intended to provide flexibility and easy user extensibility to include other video/audio codecs or filetypes. . Decode/encode your favorite DVDs or vacation Digital Videos to single CD video files on a platform that supports shared libraries and threads with transcode's import helpers tcextract and tcdecode. . This package contains the following utilities : . o avifix : Fix header of AVI-file. o aviindex : Write and read text files describing the index of an AVI file. o avimerge : Merge several AVI-files into one. o avisplit : Split AVI-files into chunks of a maximum size. o avisync : Adjust audio synchronisation. Homepage: http://tcforge.berlios.de/
Distro:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:
Repo/Section:multiverse/video

How to install transcode-utils on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Install transcode-utils on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install transcode-utils

First of all update your system with the command:

sudo apt-get update

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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.

After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.

If transcode-utils is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L transcode-utils' will give followin error.

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L transcode-utils
Package `transcode-utils' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ 

Installing transcode-utils:

After system update use the following command to install transcode-utils:

sudo apt-get install transcode-utils

Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.

How to uninstall/remove transcode-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the transcode-utils from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.

To remove the transcode-utils following command is used:

sudo apt-get remove  transcode-utils

Following command is used to remove the transcode-utils package along with its dependencies:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove transcode-utils

This will remove transcode-utils and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.

Completely removing transcode-utils with all configuration files:

Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:

sudo apt-get purge transcode-utils

or you can use following command also:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove transcode-utils

Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with transcode-utils package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.