How To Install qmpdclient on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qmpdclient
on Debian 9.
What is qmpdclient
qmpdclient is:
QMPDClient is a GUI client for MPD with Qt4 interface and such features as covers display, skins, tray notifications and last.fm track submission.
MPD (Music Player Daemon) is a server that allows remote access for playing audio files, streams and managing playlists. It can be used together with different clients, including this one, and clients are not required to be run on the same machine as the server.
The Music Player Daemon resides in the mpd package.
There are three methods to install qmpdclient
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 qmpdclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qmpdclient
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qmpdclient
Install qmpdclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qmpdclient
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qmpdclient
Install qmpdclient 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 qmpdclient
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qmpdclient
How To Uninstall qmpdclient on Debian 9
To uninstall only the qmpdclient
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qmpdclient
Uninstall qmpdclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qmpdclient
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qmpdclient
Remove qmpdclient Configurations and Data
To remove qmpdclient
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qmpdclient
Remove qmpdclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qmpdclient
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qmpdclient
Dependencies
qmpdclient have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qmpdclient
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.