How To Install banshee-extension-telepathy on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-telepathy on Debian 9. banshee-extension-telepathy is Telepathy extension for Banshee

Introduction

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

What is banshee-extension-telepathy

banshee-extension-telepathy is:

This extension provides integration between the Empathy instant messenger and Banshee. It provides the following features:

  • Download your friends’ Banshee library metadata and check out what they listen to, their ratings, BPM values, etc.
  • View your friends’ playlists and export them to disk
  • Share what you’re listening to with all your instant messaging friends by advertising the track, artist, and album of the currently playing track in Empathy’s status message. This can be disabled.
  • Download your friends’ music; one track at a time or a selection. You can cancel ones in progress, queued, individually or all at once. The sender has the option to cancel all in progress or queued transfers only. Both sender and receiver get a progress bar. File sharing can be disabled.
  • Stream your friends’ music. This feature can be disabled.

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

There are three methods to install banshee-extension-telepathy 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-telepathy 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-telepathy using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install banshee-extension-telepathy Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install banshee-extension-telepathy

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

sudo aptitude -y install banshee-extension-telepathy

How To Uninstall banshee-extension-telepathy on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove banshee-extension-telepathy

Uninstall banshee-extension-telepathy And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove banshee-extension-telepathy Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

banshee-extension-telepathy have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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