How To Install libxine2 on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxine2 on Debian 11. libxine2 is xine media player library ?? metapackage

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxine2 on Debian 11.

What is libxine2

libxine2 is:

This is the xine media player library (libxine).

Libxine provides the complete infrastructure for a video/media player. It supports MPEG 1/2 and some AVI and Quicktime videos out of the box, so you can use it to play DVDs, (S)VCDs and most video files out there. It supports network streams, subtitles and even MP3 or Ogg files. It’s extensible to your heart’s content via plugins for audio and video output, input media, demuxers (stream types), audio/video and subtitle codecs.

While this package does not provide a GUI, building a user-interface frontend around this should be quite easy. The xine-ui package provide one for your convenience.

There are three methods to install libxine2 on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libxine2 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libxine2 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libxine2

Install libxine2 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libxine2 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libxine2

Install libxine2 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 libxine2 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libxine2

How To Uninstall libxine2 on Debian 11

To uninstall only the libxine2 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libxine2

Uninstall libxine2 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libxine2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libxine2

Remove libxine2 Configurations and Data

To remove libxine2 configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libxine2

Remove libxine2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libxine2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libxine2

Dependencies

libxine2 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libxine2 package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.