How To Install phonon on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon on Debian 9. phonon is multimedia framework from KDE using Qt 4 - metapackage

Introduction

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

What is phonon

phonon is:

Phonon is the Qt 4 multimedia API, which provides a task-oriented abstraction layer for capturing, mixing, processing, and playing audio and video content.

This metapackage ensures that the system has a working Phonon configuration installed (the core library and at least one back-end).

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

sudo apt-get -y install phonon

Install phonon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phonon

Install phonon 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phonon

How To Uninstall phonon on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove phonon

Uninstall phonon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon

Remove phonon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phonon

Remove phonon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon

Dependencies

phonon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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