Introduction

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Follow the below steps to install Selene media encoder in Ubuntu 16.04 – Audio & Video Converter application for Linux

Before start the installation we have to install the official PPA repository for Selene media encoder as it’s not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the PPA repository use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:teejee2008/ppa   # Install PPA Repository
 
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~teejee2008/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpj13q_p37/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpj13q_p37/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 2D0F61F0 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpj13q_p37/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 2D0F61F0: public key "Launchpad PPA for Tony George" imported
gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

After installing the PPA repository just update the Packages & Repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jeffreyratcliffe/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease                        
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease                                                             
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/jtaylor/keepass/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                    
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                          
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/stebbins/handbrake-releases/ubuntu xenial InRelease                  
Hit:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease                                  
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

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Now we are ready to install the Selene media encoder package. So to install the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install selene   # Install Selene Audio & Video Converter package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libjansson4
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  esound-common fdkaac ffmpeg gpac gpac-modules-base lame libaudiofile1 libavdevice-ffmpeg56 libboost-regex1.58.0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libebml4v5 libenca0 libesd0
  libfdk-aac0 libffms2-4 libfreenect0.5 libgpac4 libkate-tools libmatroska6v5 libmediainfo0v5 liboggkate1 liboggz2 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox2
  libtinyxml2-2v5 libvorbisidec1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libzen0v5 mediainfo mkvtoolnix mplayer oggz-tools opus-tools python-pythoncard python-wxgtk3.0
  python-wxversion sox vorbis-tools vpx-tools x264 x265
Suggested packages:
  ffmpeg-doc pulseaudio-esound-compat libsox-fmt-all mediainfo-gui mkvtoolnix-gui mplayer-doc netselect | fping pythoncard-tools pythoncard-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  esound-common fdkaac ffmpeg gpac gpac-modules-base lame libaudiofile1 libavdevice-ffmpeg56 libboost-regex1.58.0 libdirectfb-1.2-9 libebml4v5 libenca0 libesd0
  libfdk-aac0 libffms2-4 libfreenect0.5 libgpac4 libkate-tools libmatroska6v5 libmediainfo0v5 liboggkate1 liboggz2 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base libsox2
  libtinyxml2-2v5 libvorbisidec1 libwxbase3.0-0v5 libwxgtk3.0-0v5 libzen0v5 mediainfo mkvtoolnix mplayer oggz-tools opus-tools python-pythoncard python-wxgtk3.0
  python-wxversion selene sox vorbis-tools vpx-tools x264 x265
0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 217 not upgraded.
Need to get 26.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 105 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y   ---> Enter 'y' continue the installation

As you can see above we have successfully installed the Selene Encoder (Audio & Video Converter) package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l selene   # Confirm the installed package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  selene                               17.7-0~201707260225~ubu amd64                   Audio-video converter for Linux.

Now to open the application just type the command selene on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ selene   # Open the Selene Audio & Video Converter application

Selene Audio & Video converter application version :

You can also open the Selene media encoder application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the Selene Audio & Video converter application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r selene   # Uninstall the application
(Reading database ... 213519 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing selene (17.7-0~201707260225~ubuntu16.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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