How To Install banshee-extension-mirage on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-mirage on Debian 9. banshee-extension-mirage is Automatic Playlist Generation extension for Banshee

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-mirage on Debian 9.

What is banshee-extension-mirage

banshee-extension-mirage is:

Mirage is a ready-to-try implementation of the latest research in automatic playlist generation and music similarity. Mirage analyzes your music collection and computes similarity models for each song. After your music has been analyzed, Mirage is able to automatically generate playlists of similar music.

Mirage is far from being perfect! But it is a nice and easy way to rediscover your music collection. Imagine it’s an automated radio station DJ playing songs from your collection and all songs somehow fit together.

Banshee is a media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop.

There are three methods to install banshee-extension-mirage on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install banshee-extension-mirage Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install banshee-extension-mirage

Install banshee-extension-mirage Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install banshee-extension-mirage using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install banshee-extension-mirage

Install banshee-extension-mirage 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 banshee-extension-mirage using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install banshee-extension-mirage

How To Uninstall banshee-extension-mirage on Debian 9

To uninstall only the banshee-extension-mirage package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove banshee-extension-mirage

Uninstall banshee-extension-mirage And Its Dependencies

To uninstall banshee-extension-mirage and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove banshee-extension-mirage

Remove banshee-extension-mirage Configurations and Data

To remove banshee-extension-mirage configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge banshee-extension-mirage

Remove banshee-extension-mirage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove banshee-extension-mirage configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge banshee-extension-mirage

Dependencies

banshee-extension-mirage have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-mirage package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.