How To Install python3-mutagen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mutagen
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is python3-mutagen
python3-mutagen is:
Mutagen is a Python module to handle audio metadata. It supports FLAC, M4A, MP3, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, True Audio, and WavPack audio files. All versions of ID3v2 are supported, and all standard ID3v2.4 frames are parsed. It can read Xing headers to accurately calculate the bitrate and length of MP3s. ID3 and APEv2 tags can be edited regardless of audio format. It can also manipulate Ogg streams on an individual packet/page level.
This package is built for Python 3.
There are three methods to install python3-mutagen
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install python3-mutagen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mutagen
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install python3-mutagen
Install python3-mutagen Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mutagen
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install python3-mutagen
Install python3-mutagen 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install python3-mutagen
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install python3-mutagen
How To Uninstall python3-mutagen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the python3-mutagen
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove python3-mutagen
Uninstall python3-mutagen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall python3-mutagen
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-mutagen
Remove python3-mutagen Configurations and Data
To remove python3-mutagen
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge python3-mutagen
Remove python3-mutagen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove python3-mutagen
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-mutagen
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-mutagen
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.