How To Install mkvtoolnix on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix on Debian 9.
What is mkvtoolnix
mkvtoolnix is:
Matroska is a new multimedia container format, based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), which is a kind of binary XML. These tools allow one to manipulate Matroska files.
- mkvmerge is a tool to create Matroska files from other formats
- mkvinfo allow one to get information about the tracks in a Matroska file
- mkvextract can extract tracks from Matroska files to other formats
This package only provides command-line tools. For graphical tools, you should install the mkvtoolnix-gui package.
There are three methods to install mkvtoolnix 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 mkvtoolnix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mkvtoolnix
Install mkvtoolnix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mkvtoolnix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mkvtoolnix
Install mkvtoolnix 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 mkvtoolnix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mkvtoolnix
How To Uninstall mkvtoolnix on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mkvtoolnix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mkvtoolnix
Uninstall mkvtoolnix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mkvtoolnix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mkvtoolnix
Remove mkvtoolnix Configurations and Data
To remove mkvtoolnix configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mkvtoolnix
Remove mkvtoolnix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mkvtoolnix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mkvtoolnix
Dependencies
mkvtoolnix have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mkvtoolnix package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.