Uninstalling Gstreamer/ updating version in Ubuntu 16.04

Question

I am using Ubuntu 16.04. In an attempt to solve this problem, I installed gstreamer using this link. For convenience, I will post the installation script here:

# Set your target branch
BRANCH="1.12.5"

exec > >(tee build-gstreamer.log)
exec 2>&1

[ ! -d gstreamer ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gstreamer
[ ! -d gst-plugins-base ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base
[ ! -d gst-plugins-good ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good
[ ! -d gst-plugins-bad ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad
[ ! -d gst-libav ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gst-libav
[ ! -d gst-plugins-ugly ] && git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/gstreamer/gst-plugins-ugly

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/

cd gstreamer
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc
make
sudo make install
cd ..

cd gst-plugins-base
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc
make
sudo make install
cd ..

cd gst-plugins-good
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc
make
sudo make install
cd ..

cd gst-plugins-bad
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc --enable-orc
make
sudo make install
cd ..


cd gst-plugins-ugly
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc --enable-orc 
make
sudo make install
cd ..


cd gst-libav
git checkout $BRANCH
./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc --enable-orc
make
sudo make install
cd ..

sudo ldconfig

After installation I realized that this is not the version(1.12.5) that I need. At this point gst-launch-1.0 --gst-version returned GStreamer Core Library version 1.12.5. So, I tried removing everything by:

sudo apt-get remove *gstreamer*
sudo apt-get purge *gstreamer*

After running these commands, dpkg -l|grep gstreamer returns no results which is expected. I proceeded to install the previous gstreamer version that I had, which is 1.83.x, using commands in the gstreamer website. However, running gst-launch-1.0 --gst-version still returns GStreamer Core Library version 1.12.5.

I think this has to do with sudo ldconfig command in the first installation script. I require guidance on undoing those changes.

Edit1: After removing a lot of files and directories, my output for gst-launch-1.0 --gst-version changed to: GStreamer Core Library version 1.8.3. However, gst-inspect-1.0 --version gives the output:

gst-inspect-1.0 version 1.12.5
GStreamer 1.8.3
Unknown package origin

How can I fix the version of gst-inspect?

Solution

Try to check:

which gst-inspect-1.0
which gst-launch-1.0

Locations for both should be equal.

I had similar problem, but sudo ldconfig after sudo make install fixed this. Notice that when specifying export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/ (as in your script) forces command sudo make install to create *.so files for gstreamer in /usr/local/lib/, but gst-inspect-1.0, gst-launch-1.0 use binaries from /usr/lib (not local). So just sync /usr/lib,bin with /usr/local/lib,bin (symlinks or copy). In my case ldconfig after each sudo make install fixed problem.

Comments

[skr_robo]

Thank you for the answer. However, I currently don't have a way to check this.

[zanbri]

Worked for me with GStreamer 1.14.5 on Ubuntu 16.04.