How To Install cplay on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cplay on Debian 10.
What is cplay
cplay is:
cplay provides a user-friendly interface to play various types of sound files. It offers a simple file list with which you can navigate around looking for audio files and a playlist to which you can add the files you want to play. cplay can play the songs in your playlist in repeat or random mode, and offers the option to store the playlist.
Currently, the following audio formats are supported: MP3 (through madplay, mpg321 or splay), Ogg Vorbis (through ogg123), MOD and other module formats (through mikmod or xmp), WAV (through sox) and Speex (through speex).
There are three methods to install cplay on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cplay Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cplay using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cplay
Install cplay Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cplay using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cplay
Install cplay 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 cplay using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cplay
How To Uninstall cplay on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cplay package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cplay
Uninstall cplay And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cplay and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cplay
Remove cplay Configurations and Data
To remove cplay configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cplay
Remove cplay configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cplay configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cplay
Dependencies
cplay have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cplay package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.