How To Install freetuxtv on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetuxtv on Debian 11.
What is freetuxtv
freetuxtv is:
FreetuxTV is a media player for watching and recording TV on a PC. It gives access to a large and growing database of free WebTV, WebRadio, and WebCam channels in more than 20 languages, along with television services provided by ISPs to their subscribers.
It relies on VLC for its multimedia codecs.
There are three methods to install freetuxtv 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 freetuxtv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freetuxtv using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freetuxtv
Install freetuxtv Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freetuxtv using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freetuxtv
Install freetuxtv 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 freetuxtv using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freetuxtv
How To Uninstall freetuxtv on Debian 11
To uninstall only the freetuxtv package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freetuxtv
Uninstall freetuxtv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freetuxtv and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freetuxtv
Remove freetuxtv Configurations and Data
To remove freetuxtv configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freetuxtv
Remove freetuxtv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freetuxtv configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freetuxtv
Dependencies
freetuxtv have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcurl4
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfribidi0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libsqlite3-0
- libvlc5
- vlc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freetuxtv package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
