How To Install libextractor-plugins-all on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor-plugins-all on Debian 12.
What is libextractor-plugins-all
libextractor-plugins-all is:
GNU libextractor provides developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files.
Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT, and ASF.
Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).
This metapackage depends on all the plugins.
There are three methods to install libextractor-plugins-all on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libextractor-plugins-all Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libextractor-plugins-all using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libextractor-plugins-all
Install libextractor-plugins-all Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libextractor-plugins-all using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libextractor-plugins-all
Install libextractor-plugins-all 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 libextractor-plugins-all using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libextractor-plugins-all
How To Uninstall libextractor-plugins-all on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libextractor-plugins-all package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libextractor-plugins-all
Uninstall libextractor-plugins-all And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libextractor-plugins-all and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libextractor-plugins-all
Remove libextractor-plugins-all Configurations and Data
To remove libextractor-plugins-all configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libextractor-plugins-all
Remove libextractor-plugins-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libextractor-plugins-all configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libextractor-plugins-all
Dependencies
libextractor-plugins-all have the following dependencies:
- libextractor-plugin-archive
- libextractor-plugin-exiv2
- libextractor-plugin-flac
- libextractor-plugin-gif
- libextractor-plugin-gstreamer
- libextractor-plugin-html
- libextractor-plugin-jpeg
- libextractor-plugin-midi
- libextractor-plugin-mpeg
- libextractor-plugin-ogg
- libextractor-plugin-ole2
- libextractor-plugin-pdf
- libextractor-plugin-rpm
- libextractor-plugin-thumbnailgtk
- libextractor-plugin-tiff
- libextractor-plugins-misc
- libextractor3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor-plugins-all package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
