How To Install strawberry on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install strawberry on Debian 12.
What is strawberry
strawberry is:
Strawberry is a music player aimed at music collectors and audiophiles. It is a fork of Clementine. The name is inspired by the band Strawbs.
Features:
- Play and organize music
- Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio,
- AIFF, MP4, MP3 and ASF
- Audio CD playback
- Native desktop notifications
- Playlist management
- Playlists in multiple formats
- Advanced audio and device configuration for bit-perfect playback on Linux
- Edit tags on audio files
- Automatically retrieve tags from MusicBrainz
- Album cover art from Last.fm, Musicbrainz, Discogs, Musixmatch, Deezer,
- Tidal, Qobuz and Spotify
- Song lyrics from AudD, Genius, Musixmatch, ChartLyrics, lyrics.ovh
- and lololyrics.com
- Support for multiple backends
- Audio analyzer
- Audio equalizer
- Transfer music to mass-storage USB players, MTP compatible devices
- and iPod Nano/Classic
- Scrobbler with support for Last.fm, Libre.fm and ListenBrainz
- Streaming support for Subsonic-compatible servers
- Unofficial streaming support for Tidal and Qobuz
There are three methods to install strawberry on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install strawberry Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install strawberry using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install strawberry
Install strawberry Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install strawberry using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install strawberry
Install strawberry 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 strawberry using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install strawberry
How To Uninstall strawberry on Debian 12
To uninstall only the strawberry package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove strawberry
Uninstall strawberry And Its Dependencies
To uninstall strawberry and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove strawberry
Remove strawberry Configurations and Data
To remove strawberry configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge strawberry
Remove strawberry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove strawberry configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge strawberry
Dependencies
strawberry have the following dependencies:
- libasound2
- libc6
- libcdio19
- libchromaprint1
- libfftw3-double3
- libgcc-s1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnutls30
- libgpod4
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libicu72
- libmtp9
- libprotobuf32
- libpulse0
- libqt5concurrent5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5network5
- libqt5sql5
- libqt5widgets5
- libqt5x11extras5
- libsqlite3-0
- libstdc++6
- libtag1v5
- libvlc5
- libx11-6
- libqt5sql5-sqlite
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
- sqlite3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install strawberry package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
