{"id":33156,"date":"2020-12-30T16:38:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33156"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:38:03","slug":"parole-4-15-0-released-install-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/parole-4-15-0-released-install-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Parole Media Player 4.15.0 Released, How to Install in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-icon245.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parole, Xfce&#8217;s default media player, released version 4.15.0 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in <b>Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, <b>Linux Mint 20<\/b>, and <b>Ubuntu 20.10.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Parole 4.15.0 features a in-window popover Playlist instead of a slide-out panel. The shuffle functionality now utilizes a sort filter instead of randomly selecting the next track, making it possible making the playback history more accurate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/parole-popover-playlist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"378\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/parole-popover-playlist.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/parole-popover-playlist-450x284.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The new release also features improved DVD support, including a menu option to activate the subpicture menu, DVD menu load automatically if playback does not start successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each dialog ported to CSD with some cleanup and default buttons marked as &#8220;suggested&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Add new icon.<\/li>\n<li>Fix build and missing-prototypes errors.<\/li>\n<li>Play control improvements and translation updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to install Parole 4.15.0 in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unofficial PPA<\/a> has made the new release package for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.10. Ubuntu 18.04 is not supported at the moment due to a compile issue.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut key or by searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from application menu. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback when typing due to security reason) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"135\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hugin-unofficial-ppa-450x101.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then either upgrade the media player via Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-parole-450x309.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade parole media player\" width=\"450\" height=\"309\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-parole-450x309.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-parole-600x412.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-parole.jpg 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>or run following command to install \/ upgrade it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install parole<\/pre>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t want to add PPA, grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/p\/parole\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Run following command to purge the PPA repository which also downgrade installed packages to the stock version in your Ubuntu:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get install ppa-purge && sudo ppa-purge ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parole, Xfce&#8217;s default media player, released version 4.15.0 a few days ago. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint 20, and Ubuntu 20.10. Parole 4.15.0 features a in-window popover Playlist instead of a slide-out panel. The shuffle functionality now utilizes a sort filter instead of randomly selecting the next track, making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-33156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-xfce4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}