How To Install gxineplugin on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install gxineplugin on Debian 9. gxineplugin is the xine video player, GTK+/Gnome; launcher plugin for Mozilla

Introduction

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

What is gxineplugin

gxineplugin 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/.

This package contains the Mozilla plugin, which is a launcher for gxine.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gxineplugin

Install gxineplugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gxineplugin

Install gxineplugin 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 gxineplugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gxineplugin

How To Uninstall gxineplugin on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove gxineplugin

Uninstall gxineplugin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gxineplugin

Remove gxineplugin Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gxineplugin

Remove gxineplugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gxineplugin

Dependencies

gxineplugin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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