How To Install gmlive on Debian 10

Learn how to install gmlive on Debian 10 with this tutorial. gmlive is live video frontend for mplayer

Introduction

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

What is gmlive

gmlive is:

gmlive is a mplayer frontend designed to play live video. It provides simple user interface for playing video, and is able to play several live video stream including PPStream and PPLive when the non-free library from the service provider is available.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gmlive

Install gmlive Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gmlive

Install gmlive 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 gmlive using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gmlive

How To Uninstall gmlive on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove gmlive

Uninstall gmlive And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gmlive

Remove gmlive Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gmlive

Remove gmlive configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gmlive

Dependencies

gmlive have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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