How To Install multicat on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multicat on Debian 9.
What is multicat
multicat is:
The multicat package contains a set of tools designed to easily and efficiently manipulate multicast streams in general, and MPEG-2 Transport Streams (ISO/IEC 13818-1) in particular.
The multicat suite of applications is very lightweight and designed to operate in tight environments. Memory and CPU usages are kept to a minimum, and they feature only one thread of execution.
The package contain fives programs: multicat, ingests, offsets, aggregartp and desaggregartp.
There are three methods to install multicat 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 multicat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multicat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multicat
Install multicat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multicat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multicat
Install multicat 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 multicat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multicat
How To Uninstall multicat on Debian 9
To uninstall only the multicat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multicat
Uninstall multicat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multicat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multicat
Remove multicat Configurations and Data
To remove multicat configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multicat
Remove multicat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multicat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multicat
Dependencies
multicat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multicat package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.