How To Install phonon-backend-gstreamer on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer
on Debian 10.
What is phonon-backend-gstreamer
phonon-backend-gstreamer is:
This package contains GStreamer 1.0 backend for Phonon multimedia framework. It transparently adapts and reroutes all requests from Phonon applications to the GStreamer framework which in turn performs requested audio/video decoding/capture tasks.
You should install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good to get support for playing popular free multimedia formats and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly to get support for popular MPEG audio formats like MP3.
There are three methods to install phonon-backend-gstreamer
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 phonon-backend-gstreamer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer
How To Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer on Debian 10
To uninstall only the phonon-backend-gstreamer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-gstreamer
Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer Configurations and Data
To remove phonon-backend-gstreamer
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon-backend-gstreamer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon-backend-gstreamer
Dependencies
phonon-backend-gstreamer have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.