How To Install libphonon-dev on Debian 10

Learn how to install libphonon-dev on Debian 10 with this tutorial. libphonon-dev is multimedia framework from KDE using Qt 4 - development files

Introduction

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

What is libphonon-dev

libphonon-dev is:

Phonon is the Qt 4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.

This package contains the development files needed to build Qt 4 applications using the Phonon cross-platform multimedia framework.

There are three methods to install libphonon-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 libphonon-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 libphonon-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libphonon-dev

Install libphonon-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libphonon-dev

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

sudo aptitude -y install libphonon-dev

How To Uninstall libphonon-dev on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove libphonon-dev

Uninstall libphonon-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libphonon-dev

Remove libphonon-dev Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libphonon-dev

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

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

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

Dependencies

libphonon-dev have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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