How To Install gxine on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxine
on Debian 9.
What is gxine
gxine is:
This is a GTK+ based GUI for the libxine video player library. It provides gxine, a media player that can play all the audio/video formats that libxine supports. Currently, this includes MPEG1/2, some AVI and Quicktime files, some network streaming methods and disc based media (VCD, SVCD, DVD). A more complete list can be found on http://xinehq.de/.
Most DVDs on the market today are play-protected by the Content Scrambling System (CSS). libxine does not provide any code to descramble those DVDs, because of legal uncertainties. If you still want to play those DVDs, you’ll need a CSS decryption library like libdvdcss that is supported by libxine.
There are three methods to install gxine
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 gxine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gxine
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gxine
Install gxine Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gxine
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gxine
Install gxine 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 gxine
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gxine
How To Uninstall gxine on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gxine
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gxine
Uninstall gxine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gxine
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gxine
Remove gxine Configurations and Data
To remove gxine
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gxine
Remove gxine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gxine
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gxine
Dependencies
gxine have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libgudev-1.0-0
- liblirc-client0
- libmozjs185-1.0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxcb1
- libxext6
- libxine2
- libxinerama1
- librsvg2-common
- libxine2-x
- libxine2-gnome
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gxine
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.