How To Install mkvtoolnix on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix on Debian 9. mkvtoolnix is Set of command-line tools to work with Matroska files

Introduction

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

What is mkvtoolnix

mkvtoolnix is:

Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML. These tools allow one to manipulate Matroska files.

  • mkvmerge is a tool to create Matroska files from other formats
  • mkvinfo allow one to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file
  • mkvextract can extract tracks from Matroska files to other formats

This package only provides command-line tools. For graphical tools, you should install the mkvtoolnix-gui package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mkvtoolnix

Install mkvtoolnix Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mkvtoolnix

Install mkvtoolnix 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 mkvtoolnix using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mkvtoolnix

How To Uninstall mkvtoolnix on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix

Uninstall mkvtoolnix And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkvtoolnix

Remove mkvtoolnix Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mkvtoolnix

Remove mkvtoolnix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkvtoolnix

Dependencies

mkvtoolnix have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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