How To Install multimedia-tasks on Debian 10

Learn how to install multimedia-tasks on Debian 10 with this tutorial. multimedia-tasks is Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-tasks on Debian 10.

What is multimedia-tasks

multimedia-tasks is:

This package provides Debian Multimedia tasks in tasksel.

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

sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-tasks

Install multimedia-tasks Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install multimedia-tasks

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

sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-tasks

How To Uninstall multimedia-tasks on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove multimedia-tasks

Uninstall multimedia-tasks And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-tasks

Remove multimedia-tasks Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-tasks

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

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

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

Dependencies

multimedia-tasks have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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