How To Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Debian 12.
What is phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
phonon-backend-gstreamer-common is:
This package contains GStreamer 1.0.x backend for Phonon multimedia framework. It transparently adapts and reroutes all requests from Phonon applications to the GStreamer framework which in turn performs requested audio/video decoding/capture tasks.
You should install gstreamer1.0-plugins-good to get support for playing popular free multimedia formats and gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly to get support for popular MPEG audio formats like MP3.
This package contains icons used by Phonon and Phonon4Qt5 backends.
There are three methods to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common 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 phonon-backend-gstreamer-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
How To Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Debian 12
To uninstall only the phonon-backend-gstreamer-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common Configurations and Data
To remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove phonon-backend-gstreamer-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
Dependencies
phonon-backend-gstreamer-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.