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Is it possible to completly remove Ubuntu's video player "totem"?

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Mar 15, 202612092 views
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To watch videos, I use Mplayer, which works great. But Ubuntu insists on playing every video file it encounters with "Totem", which I guess is a video player. I use linux primarily on my laptop, and often on travels, where I have no internet access. All Totem does is launch, and say "should I look …

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It's in the repositories under totem-gstreamer and totem-common, so you should be able to do it with: Or by going into your favourite package manager and deselecting it there. It looks like there's a dummy "totem" package that installs it all nicely…

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