How To Install clapper on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install clapper on Debian 12.
What is clapper
clapper is:
Clapper is a GNOME media player built using GJS with GTK4 toolkit. The media player is using GStreamer as a media backend and renders everything via OpenGL. Player works natively on both Xorg and Wayland. It also supports hardware acceleration through VA-API on AMD/Intel GPUs, NVDEC on Nvidia and V4L2 on mobile devices.
The media player has an adaptive GUI. When viewing videos in “Windowed Mode”, Clapper will use mostly unmodified GTK widgets to match your OS look nicely. When player enters “Fullscreen Mode” all GUI elements will become darker, bigger and semi-transparent for your viewing comfort. It also has a “Floating Mode” which displays only video on top of all other windows for a PiP-like viewing experience. Mobile friendly transitions are also supported.
There are three methods to install clapper on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install clapper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clapper using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clapper
Install clapper Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clapper using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clapper
Install clapper 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 clapper using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clapper
How To Uninstall clapper on Debian 12
To uninstall only the clapper package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clapper
Uninstall clapper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clapper and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clapper
Remove clapper Configurations and Data
To remove clapper configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clapper
Remove clapper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clapper configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clapper
Dependencies
clapper have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-adw-1
- gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
- gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0
- gir1.2-gtk-4.0
- gir1.2-soup-3.0
- gjs
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- libc6
- libgles2
- libglib2.0-0
- libgstreamer-gl1.0-0
- libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libgtk-4-1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clapper package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
