How To Install audiolink on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiolink
on Debian 11.
What is audiolink
audiolink is:
AudioLink is a tool that makes searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc.
It works with MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files and creates a MySQL database in which it stores the information about the music files. It creates symbolic links to the actual music files based on the search results. You can search for multiple fields, like artist, band, composer, lyricist, etc.
There are three methods to install audiolink
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 audiolink Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install audiolink
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audiolink
Install audiolink Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install audiolink
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audiolink
Install audiolink 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 audiolink
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audiolink
How To Uninstall audiolink on Debian 11
To uninstall only the audiolink
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audiolink
Uninstall audiolink And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audiolink
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audiolink
Remove audiolink Configurations and Data
To remove audiolink
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audiolink
Remove audiolink configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audiolink
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audiolink
Dependencies
audiolink have the following dependencies:
- default-mysql-client
- libdbd-mysql-perl
- libfile-temp-perl
- libmp3-info-perl
- libogg-vorbis-header-pureperl-perl
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audiolink
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.