Ade Malsasa Akbar contact
Senior author, Open Source enthusiast.
Monday, July 27, 2015 at 23:40

KDE has an open source video player named KMPlayer (not to be confused with Pandora KMPlayer). KMPlayer is actually a GUI for MPlayer. So, installing KMPLayer will also install MPlayer and many KDE dependencies. KMPlayer is available in Ubuntu official repository. Here how to install it.

Install Via Terminal


sudo apt-get install kmplayer
This will download approximately 86 MB of packages and use 230 MB space after install.


Install via GUI


Open Ubuntu Software Center and search for KMPlayer then press install button.

Open KMPlayer


You can right-click any video file then choose open with KMPlayer. Or you can open KMPlayer first from menu.