Install Gmediafinder on Ubuntu 13.04 & 12.10 via PPA

Last updated: October 27, 2013

Gmediafinder is a software to search stream and / or download files form youtube, dailymotion, vimeo, and others engines without flash.

It support fullscreen mode (double click on the video or f key/esc), visualisations and use the gstreamer engine to play sounds and videos.

For youtube you can select you prefered resolution and it give priority to webm(vorbis/vp8) and mp4 format for video seeking! (and lower cpu usage than flv…)

Gmediafinder

Objectives:

  • Install Gmediafinder on Ubuntu 13.04 & 12.10 via PPA
  • Enjoy!

The developer has create a ppa repository to make it easy to install for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. So far it supports Ubuntu 10.04 and higher.

To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run below commands to add the ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:s-lagui/ppa

Then update package lists and install gmediafinder:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install -y gmediafinder

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