How to install QMPlay2 5.6.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install QMPlay2 18.7.3 on Ubuntu 18.04
QMplay2 is a free, open-source, cross-platform video and audio player which is  based on QT. You can play  all  kinds of media formats that are supported by Ffmpeg and libmodplug. It also supports Audio CD, raw files. It contains YouTube and Prostopleer browser. It is really so simple to install QMplay2 in Ubuntu 18.04, and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Installation

Download a QMPlay2 package on terminal using the wget command

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2/releases/download/18.07.03/qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb
--2018-08-17 03:17:58--  https://github.com/zaps166/QMPlay2/releases/download/18.07.03/qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 14189070 (14M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘;qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb’;

qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18 100%[==============================>]  13.53M  1.06MB/s    in 15s     

2018-08-17 03:18:15 (955 KB/s) - ‘;qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb’; saved [14189070/14189070]

Install Gdebi package as follows

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up gdebi-core (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (3.12.0-3) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...

Install the Download package using the following command

root@linuxhelp1:~# gdebi qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: libcddb2 libgme0 libpcre16-3 libsidplayfp4 libtag-extras1 libvdpau1 mesa-vdpau-drivers vdpau-driver-all

QMPlay2 is a video and audio player which can play most formats and codecs.
Do you want to install the software package? [y/N]:y
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Preparing to unpack qmplay2-ubuntu-amd64-18.07.03-1.deb ...
Unpacking qmplay2 (18.07.03-1) ...
Setting up qmplay2 (18.07.03-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

Once Installation is done you can access the QMPlay2 from the Menu as shown here

QMPlay2 application

The version of QMPlay2 can be found in Help-> About

With this, the method to install QMPlay2 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.