How To Install bplay on Debian 10

Learn how to install bplay on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bplay is Buffered audio file player/recorder

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bplay on Debian 10.

What is bplay

bplay is:

The bplay package provides a simple command-line utility for playing and recording audio files in raw sample, VOC and WAV formats.

To use this program you need a soundcard of some kind and the appropriate driver configured into your kernel.

When run the program creates two processes which share a memory buffer. It does reading/writing on the disk and the sound device simultaneously, in order to be less liable to `pause’ because the disk is too slow or too busy.

There are three methods to install bplay on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bplay Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bplay

Install bplay Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bplay

Install bplay 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 bplay using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bplay

How To Uninstall bplay on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove bplay

Uninstall bplay And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bplay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bplay

Remove bplay Configurations and Data

To remove bplay configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bplay

Remove bplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bplay

Dependencies

bplay have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bplay package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.