How To Install music123 on Debian 10

Learn how to install music123 on Debian 10 with this tutorial. music123 is Command-line shell for sound-file players

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install music123 on Debian 10.

What is music123

music123 is:

A command-line shell for programs like mpg123 and ogg123, music123 plays a variety of sound files using a mpg123/ogg123-like interface. With all the Recommends installed, music123 plays wav, mp3 and ogg files. By simply changing the config file, music123 can play any sound file you have a player for.

(If you install a recent version of vorbis-tools, music123 will handle Ogg Flac and Ogg Speex files too.)

There are three methods to install music123 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 music123 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install music123 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install music123

Install music123 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install music123 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install music123

Install music123 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 music123 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install music123

How To Uninstall music123 on Debian 10

To uninstall only the music123 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove music123

Uninstall music123 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall music123 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove music123

Remove music123 Configurations and Data

To remove music123 configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge music123

Remove music123 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove music123 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge music123

Dependencies

music123 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install music123 package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.