How To Install goobox on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goobox on Debian 9.
What is goobox
goobox is:
Goobox is an CD player and ripper for the GNOME 3 environment. It follows the “Just Works” principle so its interface is beautiful and easy-to-use.
It uses GNOME/GTK+ for its user interface, GStreamer framework for CD playing, and ripping operations, musicbrainz for CD indexing, and Google to search for album cover images.
There are three methods to install goobox 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 goobox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install goobox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install goobox
Install goobox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install goobox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install goobox
Install goobox 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 goobox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install goobox
How To Uninstall goobox on Debian 9
To uninstall only the goobox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove goobox
Uninstall goobox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall goobox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove goobox
Remove goobox Configurations and Data
To remove goobox configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge goobox
Remove goobox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove goobox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge goobox
Dependencies
goobox have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libbrasero-media3-1
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libcoverart1
- libdiscid0
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgstreamer1.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmusicbrainz5-2
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-base
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goobox package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.