How To Install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install phonon-backend-gstreamer-common
on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.