How To Install cuetools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuetools on Debian 10.
What is cuetools
cuetools is:
cuetools is a set of programs that are useful for manipulating CUE sheet (cue) files and Table of Contents (toc) files. CUE and TOC files are a way to represent the layout of a data or audio CD in a machine-readable ASCII format. The package includes these utilities:
- cueconvert: convert between CUE and TOC formats
- cuebreakpoints: print the breakpoints from a CUE or TOC file
- cueprint: print disc and track information for a CUE or TOC file
- cuetag: tag files based on CUE/TOC file information
Probably the most popular use is to split a large audio file into many small files according to a CUE or TOC, for example:
cuebreakpoints disc.cue | shnsplit disc.wav
There are three methods to install cuetools 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 cuetools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cuetools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cuetools
Install cuetools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cuetools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cuetools
Install cuetools 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 cuetools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cuetools
How To Uninstall cuetools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the cuetools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cuetools
Uninstall cuetools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cuetools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cuetools
Remove cuetools Configurations and Data
To remove cuetools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cuetools
Remove cuetools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cuetools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cuetools
Dependencies
cuetools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cuetools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.