How To Install media-player-info on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info on Debian 9.
What is media-player-info
media-player-info is:
media-player-info is a repository of data files describing media player (mostly USB Mass Storage ones) capabilities. These files contain information about the directory layout to use to add music to these devices, about the supported file formats, and so on.
The music player capabilities are now described in *.mpi files (which are ini-like files), together with udev rules to identify these devices.
There are three methods to install media-player-info 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 media-player-info Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install media-player-info using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install media-player-info
Install media-player-info Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install media-player-info using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install media-player-info
Install media-player-info 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 media-player-info using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install media-player-info
How To Uninstall media-player-info on Debian 9
To uninstall only the media-player-info package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove media-player-info
Uninstall media-player-info And Its Dependencies
To uninstall media-player-info and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove media-player-info
Remove media-player-info Configurations and Data
To remove media-player-info configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge media-player-info
Remove media-player-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove media-player-info configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge media-player-info
Dependencies
media-player-info have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install media-player-info package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.