How To Install gxine on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gxine on Debian 9. gxine is the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome user interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gxine on Debian 9.

What is gxine

gxine is:

This is a GTK+ based GUI for the libxine video player library. It provides gxine, a media player that can play all the audio/video formats that libxine supports. Currently, this includes MPEG1/2, some AVI and Quicktime files, some network streaming methods and disc based media (VCD, SVCD, DVD). A more complete list can be found on http://xinehq.de/.

Most DVDs on the market today are play-protected by the Content Scrambling System (CSS). libxine does not provide any code to descramble those DVDs, because of legal uncertainties. If you still want to play those DVDs, you’ll need a CSS decryption library like libdvdcss that is supported by libxine.

There are three methods to install gxine 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 gxine Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gxine using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gxine

Install gxine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gxine using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gxine

Install gxine 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 gxine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gxine

How To Uninstall gxine on Debian 9

To uninstall only the gxine package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gxine

Uninstall gxine And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gxine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gxine

Remove gxine Configurations and Data

To remove gxine configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gxine

Remove gxine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gxine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gxine

Dependencies

gxine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gxine package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.