{"id":8849,"date":"2019-04-16T16:04:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2019-04-16T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:04:43","slug":"install-parole-media-player-1-0-2-ubuntu-18-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/04\/install-parole-media-player-1-0-2-ubuntu-18-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Parole Media Player 1.0.2 in Ubuntu 18.04"},"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>The default media player of Xfce and XUbuntu, Parole 1.0.2, was released recently with many bug-fixes and translation updates.<\/p>\n<p>According to the changelog, Parole 1.0.2 fixed following bugs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved support for missing Gstreamer plugin installers<\/li>\n<li>Fixed compiler error <code>-Wcast-function-type<\/code> with GCC 8<\/li>\n<li>Fixed disabling vendor-enabled plugins<\/li>\n<li>Fixed crash when disabling plugins<\/li>\n<li>Fixed play button sensitivity items are added to playlist.<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Appstream validation by removing <code>em<\/code> tags<\/li>\n<li>Fixed plugin active state when reopening the Plugins dialog<\/li>\n<li>Resolved g_type_class_add_private warnings<\/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 1.0.2 in Ubuntu 18.04:<\/h4>\n<p>Open terminal either via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> keyboard shortcut or by searching for &#8216;terminal&#8217; from application launcher. When it opens, run following commands to install the media player from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~unit193\/+archive\/ubuntu\/xfce\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PPA repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Paste below command and hit run to add PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:unit193\/xfce<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/add-parole-ppa-bionic-600x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"112\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/add-parole-ppa-bionic-600x112.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/add-parole-ppa-bionic-450x84.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/add-parole-ppa-bionic.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> Then either <b>upgrade<\/b> Parole via Software Updater:<\/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 <b>install<\/b> the package via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt install parole<\/pre>\n<p><i>Linux Mint 19 needs to refresh package cache first via <code>sudo apt update<\/code> command.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> As the PPA contains many other Xfce packages and libraries, you may remove the PPA afterwards by going to <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> -> <b>Other Software<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-parole-ppa-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-parole-ppa-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-parole-ppa-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/remove-parole-ppa.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Uninstall Parole<\/h4>\n<p>To remove the media player, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove --auto-remove parole<\/pre>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. 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According to the changelog, Parole 1.0.2 fixed following bugs: Improved support for missing Gstreamer plugin installers Fixed compiler error -Wcast-function-type with GCC 8 Fixed disabling vendor-enabled plugins Fixed crash when disabling plugins Fixed play button sensitivity [&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":[1416],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-parole-media-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","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=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}