How To Install libmpcdec-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libmpcdec-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libmpcdec-dev is MusePack decoder - development files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec-dev on Debian 10.

What is libmpcdec-dev

libmpcdec-dev is:

Musepack is an audio compression format with a strong emphasis on high quality. It’s not lossless, but it is designed for transparency, so that you won’t be able to hear differences between the original wave file and the much smaller MPC file.

It is based on the MPEG-1 Layer-2 / MP2 algorithms, but since 1997 it has rapidly developed and vastly improved and is now at an advanced stage in which it contains heavily optimized and patentless code.

This package contains the header files, static libraries and symbolic links that developers using libreplaygain will need.

There are three methods to install libmpcdec-dev on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libmpcdec-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libmpcdec-dev

Install libmpcdec-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libmpcdec-dev

Install libmpcdec-dev 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 libmpcdec-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmpcdec-dev

How To Uninstall libmpcdec-dev on Debian 10

To uninstall only the libmpcdec-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmpcdec-dev

Uninstall libmpcdec-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmpcdec-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpcdec-dev

Remove libmpcdec-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libmpcdec-dev configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmpcdec-dev

Remove libmpcdec-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpcdec-dev

Dependencies

libmpcdec-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpcdec-dev package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.