How To Install multimedia-players on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-players on Debian 12.
What is multimedia-players
multimedia-players is:
This metapackage will install additional ‘consumer’ multimedia software.
There are three methods to install multimedia-players on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install multimedia-players Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-players using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install multimedia-players
Install multimedia-players Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install multimedia-players using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install multimedia-players
Install multimedia-players 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 multimedia-players using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install multimedia-players
How To Uninstall multimedia-players on Debian 12
To uninstall only the multimedia-players package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove multimedia-players
Uninstall multimedia-players And Its Dependencies
To uninstall multimedia-players and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove multimedia-players
Remove multimedia-players Configurations and Data
To remove multimedia-players configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge multimedia-players
Remove multimedia-players configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove multimedia-players configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge multimedia-players
Dependencies
multimedia-players have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install multimedia-players package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
