How To Install transmageddon on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install transmageddon on Debian 9. transmageddon is video transcoder for Linux and Unix systems built using GStreamer

Introduction

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

What is transmageddon

transmageddon is:

Transmageddon supports almost any format as its input and can generate a very large host of output files. The goal of the application was to help people to create the files they need to be able to play on their mobile devices and for people not hugely experienced with multimedia to generate a multimedia file without having to resort to command line tools with ungainly syntaxes.

It also provide the support for the GStreamer’s plugins auto-search.

There are three methods to install transmageddon 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 transmageddon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install transmageddon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install transmageddon

Install transmageddon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install transmageddon

Install transmageddon 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 transmageddon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install transmageddon

How To Uninstall transmageddon on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove transmageddon

Uninstall transmageddon And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove transmageddon

Remove transmageddon Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge transmageddon

Remove transmageddon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge transmageddon

Dependencies

transmageddon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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