How To Install audacious-plugins on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious-plugins on Debian 11. audacious-plugins is Base plugins for audacious

Introduction

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

What is audacious-plugins

audacious-plugins 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
  • AAC and AAC+
  • FLAC
  • Windows Media (WMA)
  • Many module formats and much more!

Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support.

This package contains the plugins for Audacious.

  • Audio CD reading
  • MPEG support (mp3)
  • Ogg Vorbis support
  • Windows Media support (WMA)
  • AAC support
  • FLAC support
  • ALAC support
  • WAVE support
  • ALSA output
  • OSS output
  • Disk writer output
  • And many more!

There are three methods to install audacious-plugins 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-plugins 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-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install audacious-plugins

Install audacious-plugins Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install audacious-plugins

Install audacious-plugins 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-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install audacious-plugins

How To Uninstall audacious-plugins on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove audacious-plugins

Uninstall audacious-plugins And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove audacious-plugins

Remove audacious-plugins Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge audacious-plugins

Remove audacious-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audacious-plugins

Dependencies

audacious-plugins have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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