{"id":6935,"date":"2017-07-09T13:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2017-07-09T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:20:53","slug":"install-parole-media-player-0-9-2-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-17-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/install-parole-media-player-0-9-2-via-ppa-in-ubuntu-17-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Parole Media Player 0.9.2 via PPA in Ubuntu 17.04"},"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=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Parole, a modern simple media player for XFCE, has reached the 0.9.2 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.xfce.org\/apps\/parole\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\">Parole<\/a> 0.9.2 requires GTK >= 3.20. Ubuntu 16.04 won&#8217;t be able to update to this release with the default GTK+3 libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Parole 0.9.2 features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update homepage to docs.xfce.org<\/li>\n<li>Switch Xfce URLs to HTTPS<\/li>\n<li>Keyboard shortcuts helper available in the Help menu<\/li>\n<li>New B\/N keybindings for previous and next track<\/li>\n<li>Fixed null pointer dereference<\/li>\n<li>Fixed adding directories to queue via commandline<\/li>\n<li>Fixed shuffle functionality also repeating<\/li>\n<li>Fixed display order of audio and subtitle tracks<\/li>\n<li>Fixed &#8220;Clear Recent&#8221; clearing global history<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Ctrl-Q keybinding when in fullscreen<\/li>\n<li>Fixed string escaping in audiobox widget<\/li>\n<li>Complete the Parole Plugins documentation and improved documentation quality<\/li>\n<li>translation updates and code quality improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player-450x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"278\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player-450x278.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player-600x371.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Parole 0.9.2 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.10 and Ubuntu 17.04, do following steps to add PPA and install or upgrade Parole to version 0.9.2:<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from app launcher. When it opens, run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1\/apps<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual 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\/2017\/07\/zesty-ppa-600x84.jpg\" alt=\"parole ppa for zesty\" width=\"600\" height=\"84\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/zesty-ppa-600x84.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/zesty-ppa-450x63.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/zesty-ppa.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then upgrade the media player via Software Updater utility:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upgrade-parole.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><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\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or run following commands to install \/ upgrade it:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install parole<\/pre>\n<p>For Ubuntu 16.04 users who&#8217;ve updated GTK version (<i>no recommended for beginners<\/i>), grab the <b>.deb<\/b> package for Ubuntu 16.10 from <a href=\"http:\/\/ppa.launchpad.net\/ubuntuhandbook1\/apps\/ubuntu\/pool\/main\/p\/parole\/\" target=\"_blank\">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, a modern simple media player for XFCE, has reached the 0.9.2 release. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04 via PPA. Parole 0.9.2 requires GTK >= 3.20. Ubuntu 16.04 won&#8217;t be able to update to this release with the default GTK+3 libraries. Parole 0.9.2 features: Update homepage to docs.xfce.org Switch Xfce [&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":[614,1416,251],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-media-player","tag-parole-media-player","tag-xfce-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935","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=6935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}