How to Install mplayer2 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install mplayer2 software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

mplayer2 software package provides next generation movie player for Unix-like systems, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mplayer2 

mplayer2 is installed in your system.

Make ensure the mplayer2 package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep mplayer2 *

You will get with mplayer2 package name, version, architecture and description in a table

mplayer2 package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Video
Package mplayer2
Version 2.0-701-gd4c5b7f-2ubuntu2
Description next generation movie player for Unix-like systems
Sub Section Video


See Also, How to uninstall or remove mplayer2 software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?