How To Install jack on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jack
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is jack
jack is:
Jack has been developed with one main goal: making OGGs (or MP3s) without having to worry. There is nearly no way that an incomplete rip goes unnoticed, e.g. jack compares WAV and OGG file sizes when continuing from a previous run. Jack also checks your HD space before doing anything (even keeps some MB free).
Jack is different from other such tools in a number of ways:
- it supports different rippers and encoders
- it is very configurable
- it doesn’t need X
- it can “rip” virtual CD images like the ones created by cdrdao
- when using cdparanoia, cdparanoia’s status information is displayed and archived for all tracks, so you can see if something went wrong
- it uses sophisticated disk space management, i.e. it schedules its ripping/encoding processes depending on available space.
- freedb query, file renaming and id3/ogg-tagging
- it can resume work after it has been interrupted. If all tracks have been ripped, it doesn’t even need the CD anymore, even if you want to do a freedb query.
- it can do a freedb query based on OGGs alone, like if you don’t remember from which CD those OGGs came from.
- freedb submissions
There are three methods to install jack
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install jack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jack
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jack
Install jack Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jack
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jack
Install jack 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install jack
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jack
How To Uninstall jack on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the jack
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jack
Uninstall jack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jack
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jack
Remove jack Configurations and Data
To remove jack
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jack
Remove jack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jack
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jack
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jack
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.