How To Install audex on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audex on Debian 9.
What is audex
audex is:
Audex is a new audio grabber tool for CD-ROM drives for the KDE desktop.
The assistant is able to create profiles for LAME, OGG Vorbis (oggenc), FLAC, FAAC (AAC/MP4) and RIFF WAVE. Please install your favorite encoder. Of course for WAVE no external encoder is needed! Beyond the assistant you can define your own profile, which means, that audex works together with command line encoders in general.
Some features are:
- Extracting with CDDA Paranoia. So you have quite perfect audio quality.
- Extracting and encoding run parallel.
- Filename editing with local and remote CDDB/FreeDB database.
- Submit new entries to CDDB/FreeDB database.
- Metadata correction tools like capitalize etc.
- Multi-profile extraction (with one commandline-encoder per profile).
- Fetch covers from the internet and store them in the database.
- Create playlists, cover and template-based-info files in target directory.
- Creates extraction and encoding protocols.
- Transfer files to a FTP-server.
There are three methods to install audex on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install audex Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install audex using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audex
Install audex Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install audex using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audex
Install audex Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install audex using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audex
How To Uninstall audex on Debian 9
To uninstall only the audex package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audex
Uninstall audex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audex and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audex
Remove audex Configurations and Data
To remove audex configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audex
Remove audex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audex configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audex
Dependencies
audex have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audex package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
