How To Install swac-scan on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swac-scan
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is swac-scan
swac-scan is:
Swac-scan is a simple command line program that enables the generation of index files for audio collections of words (SWAC). It can extract tags from .flac, .ogg, .spx and .mp3 (id3v2 only) audio files.
There are three methods to install swac-scan
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swac-scan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swac-scan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swac-scan
Install swac-scan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swac-scan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swac-scan
Install swac-scan 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install swac-scan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swac-scan
How To Uninstall swac-scan on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the swac-scan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swac-scan
Uninstall swac-scan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swac-scan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swac-scan
Remove swac-scan Configurations and Data
To remove swac-scan
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swac-scan
Remove swac-scan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swac-scan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swac-scan
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swac-scan
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.