How To Install qtscrob on Debian 12

Learn how to install qtscrob on Debian 12 with this tutorial. qtscrob is audioscrobbler submitter for portable media players - Qt frontend

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtscrob on Debian 12.

What is qtscrob

qtscrob is:

qtscrob is a GUI tool which reads playback information from iPods, MTP (aka Plays for Sure) or Rockbox (open source audio player firmware) devices and submits them to an audioscrobbler service, such as “last.fm” or “libre.fm”.

This is the graphical version of the tool. For a CLI version, see the ‘scrobbler’ package.

There are three methods to install qtscrob 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 qtscrob Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install qtscrob using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install qtscrob

Install qtscrob Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install qtscrob using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install qtscrob

Install qtscrob 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 qtscrob using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install qtscrob

How To Uninstall qtscrob on Debian 12

To uninstall only the qtscrob package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove qtscrob

Uninstall qtscrob And Its Dependencies

To uninstall qtscrob and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove qtscrob

Remove qtscrob Configurations and Data

To remove qtscrob configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge qtscrob

Remove qtscrob configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove qtscrob configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qtscrob

Dependencies

qtscrob have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install qtscrob package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.