How to install Parole Media Player on Ubuntu 17.04
To install Parole Media Player on Ubuntu 17.04
Parole is a simple media player majorly used for Linux and other UNIX like operating systems. In fact, it is the default media player of Xfce and Xubuntu. Since it uses very few system resources, it is considered to be efficient. Parole plays local media files, such as WAV, MP3 and MPEG, as well as CDs and DVDs.
Installing Parole Media Player
Before installing Parole, make sure you add the necessary dependency package via ppa.
root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
Apps that are not available in Ubuntu universe repositories or the Ubuntu repositories only provide an old version
Maintained by http://ubuntuhandbook.org
Liferea News Reader:
No update for Ubuntu 17.04 since Liferea now requires GTK > =3.14
Parole media player:
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gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
After adding the dependency packages, update the machine by executing the apt-get update command as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
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Fetched 287 kB in 2s (114 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now is the time to install Parole.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install parole
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
gstreamer1.0-clutter libtagc0 libxfce4ui-2-0 libxfce4ui-common
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Setting up parole (0.9.1-0build1~ubuntu16.04) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Once we are through with the installation, go to Ubuntu dashboard search bar and type parole. It will display the application, click the icon to open it.
The application gets opened
With this, the installation of Parole Media Player comes to an end.
cd /usr/share/parole