How To Install clementine on Debian 10

Learn how to install clementine on Debian 10 with this tutorial. clementine is modern music player and library organizer

Introduction

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

What is clementine

clementine is:

Clementine is a multiplatform music player focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.

Summary of included features :

  • Search and play your local music library.
  • Listen to internet radio from SomaFM, Magnatune, Jamendo, Intergalactic FM, Digitally Imported, JAZZRADIO.com, ROCKRADIO.com, RadioTunes.com, Soundcloud, Icecast and Subsonic servers.
  • Search and play songs you’ve uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
  • Create smart playlists and dynamic playlists.
  • Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  • CUE sheet support.
  • Play audio CDs.
  • Visualisations from projectM.
  • Lyrics and artist biographies and photos.
  • Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC.
  • Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
  • Fetch missing tags from MusicBrainz.
  • Discover and download Podcasts.
  • Download missing album cover art from Last.fm.
  • Native desktop notifications using libnotify.
  • Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  • Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
  • Queue manager.

It is largely a port of Amarok 1.4, with some features rewritten to take advantage of Qt4.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install clementine

Install clementine Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install clementine

Install clementine 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 clementine using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install clementine

How To Uninstall clementine on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove clementine

Uninstall clementine And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove clementine

Remove clementine Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge clementine

Remove clementine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clementine

Dependencies

clementine have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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