Is GStreamer available for Ubuntu 21.04, and if it is, then how to install it?

[GwibberFooey]

My first attempt looks like this:


user@localhost:~$ sudo apt install gstreamer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package gstreamer

Because that didn't work, therefor I visited the GStreamer webpage for installing on Linux: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/installing/on-linux.html?gi-language=c
In compliance with the instructions of the aforementioned webpage, my second attempt looks like this:


user@localhost:~$ sudo apt-get install libgstreamer1.0-0 gstreamer1.0-plugins-base gstreamer1.0-plugins-good gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-doc gstreamer1.0-tools gstreamer1.0-x gstreamer1.0-alsa gstreamer1.0-gl gstreamer1.0-gtk3 gstreamer1.0-qt5 gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package gstreamer1.0-doc is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'gstreamer1.0-doc' has no installation candidate

What procedure enables the installation of GStreamer on Ubuntu 21.04?

[Yellow Pasque]

Ubuntu comes with the basic gstreamer packages installed by default. Installing these packages should take care of most gstreamer needs.

sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-libav

There are some other specialty gstreamer packages, and -dev packages if you need to build software using gstreamer. Synaptic is a useful tool to browse packages and read their descriptions.