How To Install audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is audiofile-tools
audiofile-tools is:
The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).
This package contains the sfinfo and sfconvert tools.
There are three methods to install audiofile-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install audiofile-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install audiofile-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audiofile-tools
Install audiofile-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install audiofile-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audiofile-tools
Install audiofile-tools 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install audiofile-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audiofile-tools
How To Uninstall audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the audiofile-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audiofile-tools
Uninstall audiofile-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audiofile-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audiofile-tools
Remove audiofile-tools Configurations and Data
To remove audiofile-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audiofile-tools
Remove audiofile-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audiofile-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audiofile-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.