How To Install gnash-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnash-common
on Debian 9.
What is gnash-common
gnash-common is:
GNU Gnash is a free GPL’d SWF player. It runs as a standalone application on either the desktop or embedded devices, or may be used as a plugin for several popular browsers. It supports playing media from a disk or streaming over a network connection.
GNU Gnash is based on GameSWF and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9. SWF v10 is not supported by GNU Gnash.
Included in the Gnash is an XML based messaging system, as specified in the SWF specification. This lets a SWF animation communicate over a TCP/IP socket, and parse the incoming XML message. This lets an animation be a remote control for other devices or applications.
There are three methods to install gnash-common
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 gnash-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnash-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnash-common
Install gnash-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnash-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnash-common
Install gnash-common 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 gnash-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnash-common
How To Uninstall gnash-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gnash-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnash-common
Uninstall gnash-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnash-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnash-common
Remove gnash-common Configurations and Data
To remove gnash-common
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnash-common
Remove gnash-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnash-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnash-common
Dependencies
gnash-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnash-common
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.