How To Install vdr-plugin-live-dbg on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-live-dbg on Debian 9.
What is vdr-plugin-live-dbg
vdr-plugin-live-dbg is:
Live, the “Live Interactive VDR Environment”, is a plugin providing the possibility to interactively control the Linux Video Disc Recorder VDR and some of it’s plugins from a web interface.
Unlike external programs, like the VDR web frontend “VDRAdmin-AM”, that communicate with VDR via its SVDRP socket interface, Live has direct access to VDR’s data structures and thus is very fast.
This package contains the debugging symbols.
There are three methods to install vdr-plugin-live-dbg 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 vdr-plugin-live-dbg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-live-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Install vdr-plugin-live-dbg Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vdr-plugin-live-dbg using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Install vdr-plugin-live-dbg 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 vdr-plugin-live-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vdr-plugin-live-dbg
How To Uninstall vdr-plugin-live-dbg on Debian 9
To uninstall only the vdr-plugin-live-dbg package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Uninstall vdr-plugin-live-dbg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vdr-plugin-live-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Remove vdr-plugin-live-dbg Configurations and Data
To remove vdr-plugin-live-dbg configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Remove vdr-plugin-live-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vdr-plugin-live-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vdr-plugin-live-dbg
Dependencies
vdr-plugin-live-dbg have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-plugin-live-dbg package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
