How To Install libextractor3 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3
on Debian 9.
What is libextractor3
libextractor3 is:
GNU libextractor provides developers of file-sharing networks, file managers, and WWW-indexing bots with a universal library to obtain meta-data about files.
Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, MAN, PS, DVI, OLE2 (DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), FLAC, MP3 (ID3v1 and ID3v2), OGG, WAV, S3M (Scream Tracker 3), XM (eXtended Module), IT (Impulse Tracker), NSF(E) (NES music), SID (C64 music), EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), LZH, LHA, RAR, ZIP, CAB, 7-ZIP, AR, MTREE, PAX, CPIO, ISO9660, SHAR, RAW, XAR FLV, REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
Also, various additional MIME types are detected. It can also be used to compute hash functions (SHA-1, MD5, ripemd160).
This package contains the library and all plugins.
There are three methods to install libextractor3
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 libextractor3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libextractor3
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libextractor3
Install libextractor3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libextractor3
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libextractor3
Install libextractor3 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 libextractor3
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libextractor3
How To Uninstall libextractor3 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the libextractor3
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libextractor3
Uninstall libextractor3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libextractor3
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libextractor3
Remove libextractor3 Configurations and Data
To remove libextractor3
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libextractor3
Remove libextractor3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libextractor3
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libextractor3
Dependencies
libextractor3 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libextractor3
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.