How To Install gnome-music on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-music on Debian 12.
What is gnome-music
gnome-music is:
Music is the new GNOME music playing application aiming at being a simple and elegant replacement for using Files to show the Music directory. Objectives includes listening to local and online/cloud collections, listen to music on attached devices, listen to music shared by friends, listen to audiobooks, a player for DLNA media servers, share music, upload music and select favorites.
There are three methods to install gnome-music 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 gnome-music Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-music using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-music
Install gnome-music Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-music using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-music
Install gnome-music 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 gnome-music using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-music
How To Uninstall gnome-music on Debian 12
To uninstall only the gnome-music package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-music
Uninstall gnome-music And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-music and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-music
Remove gnome-music Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-music configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-music
Remove gnome-music configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-music configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-music
Dependencies
gnome-music have the following dependencies:
- gir1.2-adw-1
- gir1.2-glib-2.0
- gir1.2-goa-1.0
- gir1.2-grilo-0.3
- gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
- gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0
- gir1.2-gtk-4.0
- gir1.2-mediaart-2.0
- gir1.2-pango-1.0
- gir1.2-soup-2.4
- gir1.2-totemplparser-1.0
- gir1.2-tracker-3.0
- gnome-settings-daemon
- grilo-plugins-0.3
- python3
- python3-gi
- python3-gi-cairo
- python3-requests
- tracker
- dconf-gsettings-backend
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-music package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.