{"id":7557,"date":"2018-03-01T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2018-03-01T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:41:38","slug":"parole-media-player-1-0-released-install-it-in-ubuntu-17-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/03\/parole-media-player-1-0-released-install-it-in-ubuntu-17-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Parole Media Player 1.0 Released! Install it in Ubuntu 17.10"},"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>Xfce&#8217;s Parole media player reached the 1.0 stable series earlier today! Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04.<\/p>\n<p>Xfce 1.0.0 brings a new feature and following bug-fixes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added &#8220;Automatic&#8221; video output option. This uses the autoimagesink to provide the best available video sink for the environment, eliminating the dreaded &#8216;Could not initialise Xv output&#8217; error.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed 32-bit crashes when using the MPRIS2 plugin<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash on &#8220;Clear History&#8221; button press<\/li>\n<li>Fixed appdata validation<\/li>\n<li>Fixed full debug builds and resolved implicit-fallthrough build warning<\/li>\n<li>Replaced stock icon by freedesktop.org compliant option<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player-600x371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6555\" srcset=\"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-450x278.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/parole-media-player.jpg 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Parole 1.0.0 in Ubuntu 18.04, 17.10:<\/h4>\n<p><b>Ubuntu 18.04<\/b> includes the new release package in its main repository archive, just search for and install &#8216;parole&#8217; in <b>Ubuntu Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 17.10<\/b>, you can install or upgrade to the new release via an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntuhandbook1\/+archive\/ubuntu\/apps\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a>. No updates for Ubuntu 16.04, since Parole now requires GTK+ >=3.20.<\/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 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\">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>Xfce&#8217;s Parole media player reached the 1.0 stable series earlier today! Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 17.10 and Ubuntu 18.04. Xfce 1.0.0 brings a new feature and following bug-fixes: Added &#8220;Automatic&#8221; video output option. This uses the autoimagesink to provide the best available video sink for the environment, eliminating the dreaded &#8216;Could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1416,224],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-parole-media-player","tag-xfce4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","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=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}