How To Install audacious on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on Debian 11. audacious is small and fast audio player which supports lots of formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious on Debian 11.

What is audacious

audacious is:

Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports Winamp skins and many codecs.

In the default install, the following codecs are supported:

  • MP3
  • Ogg Vorbis / Theora
  • AAC and AAC+
  • FLAC
  • ALAC
  • Windows Media (WMA)
  • WAVE

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support. Support for many more codecs can also be added through plugins.

This package contains the core player and its localization.

There are three methods to install audacious on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install audacious Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install audacious

Install audacious Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install audacious

Install audacious 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 audacious using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install audacious

How To Uninstall audacious on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove audacious

Uninstall audacious And Its Dependencies

To uninstall audacious and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove audacious

Remove audacious Configurations and Data

To remove audacious configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge audacious

Remove audacious configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audacious

Dependencies

audacious have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.