{"id":7141,"date":"2017-09-14T16:59:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7141"},"modified":"2017-09-14T16:59:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T16:59:58","slug":"install-mkvtoolnix-15-0-0-easily-via-snap-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/install-mkvtoolnix-15-0-0-easily-via-snap-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Install MKVToolNix 15.0.0 Easily via Snap in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/mkvtoolnix-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MKVToolNix now is available as Snap app. You can now run the latest 15.0.0 in all current Ubuntu releases, including <b>Ubuntu 14.04<\/b>, while the <a href=\"https:\/\/mkvtoolnix.download\/downloads.html\" target=\"_blank\">official MKVToolNix apt repository<\/a> only provides packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and higher.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from your application launcher. When it opens, simply run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap install mkvtoolnix-jz<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mkvtoolnix-snap-600x83.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"83\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mkvtoolnix-snap-600x83.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mkvtoolnix-snap-450x62.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/mkvtoolnix-snap.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snap includes almost all required dependency libraries. Once you installed it, launch the software from your application launcher and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><b>For Ubuntu 14.04<\/b>, you may first install the <code>snapd<\/code> daemon while it&#8217;s not installed by default:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get install snapd snapd-xdg-open<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"89\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6976\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-600x89.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg-450x67.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/install-snapd-xdg.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The snap application can co-exist with the traditional packages. If you installed both version of MKVToolNix, and can&#8217;t find out which is the snap app from your application launcher, launch the tools via command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">\/snap\/bin\/mkvtoolnix-jz.gui<\/pre>\n<p>For mkv info, merge, extract, etc., see the picture:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/launch-mkvtoolnix-snap-600x76.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"76\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/launch-mkvtoolnix-snap-600x76.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/launch-mkvtoolnix-snap-450x57.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/launch-mkvtoolnix-snap.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall MKVToolNix snap:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove the snap package of MKVToolNix, run following command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo snap remove mkvtoolnix-jz<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MKVToolNix now is available as Snap app. You can now run the latest 15.0.0 in all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 14.04, while the official MKVToolNix apt repository only provides packages for Ubuntu 16.04 and higher. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for &#8220;terminal&#8221; from your application launcher. When it opens, simply run command: [&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":[1338,862,861],"class_list":["post-7141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-makemkv","tag-mkvmerge-gui","tag-mkvtoolnix"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141","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=7141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}