How To Install libflac8 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libflac8
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libflac8
libflac8 is:
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:
- The stream format
- libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file decoder
- flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files
- Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the works)
This package contains the runtime library libFLAC. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-video, ubuntustudio-audio, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libflac8
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libflac8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libflac8
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libflac8
Install libflac8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libflac8
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libflac8
Install libflac8 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 libflac8
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libflac8
How To Uninstall libflac8 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libflac8
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libflac8
Uninstall libflac8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libflac8
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libflac8
Remove libflac8 Configurations and Data
To remove libflac8
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libflac8
Remove libflac8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libflac8
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libflac8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libflac8
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.