How To Install multimedia-firewire on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-firewire on Debian 9. multimedia-firewire is Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-firewire on Debian 9.

What is multimedia-firewire

multimedia-firewire is:

This metapackage will install packages to configure your ffado supported firewire audio card.

There are three methods to install multimedia-firewire 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 multimedia-firewire Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-firewire

Install multimedia-firewire Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multimedia-firewire

Install multimedia-firewire 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 multimedia-firewire using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-firewire

How To Uninstall multimedia-firewire on Debian 9

To uninstall only the multimedia-firewire package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove multimedia-firewire

Uninstall multimedia-firewire And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-firewire

Remove multimedia-firewire Configurations and Data

To remove multimedia-firewire configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-firewire

Remove multimedia-firewire configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-firewire

Dependencies

multimedia-firewire have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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