How To Install squeezelite on Debian 10

Learn how to install squeezelite on Debian 10 with this tutorial. squeezelite is lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator - ALSA version

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite on Debian 10.

What is squeezelite

squeezelite is:

Squeezelite is a small headless Squeezebox emulator. It is aimed at supporting high quality audio including USB DAC based output at multiple sample rates.

It supports decoding PCM (WAV/AIFF), FLAC, MP3, Ogg, AAC, WMA and ALAC audio formats. It can also resample audio, which allows squeezelite to upsample the output to the highest sample rate supported by the output device.

This package is built with the resampling, ffmpeg and visualisation export options. It uses ALSA for audio output.

There are three methods to install squeezelite on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install squeezelite Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install squeezelite

Install squeezelite Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install squeezelite

Install squeezelite 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 squeezelite using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install squeezelite

How To Uninstall squeezelite on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove squeezelite

Uninstall squeezelite And Its Dependencies

To uninstall squeezelite and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove squeezelite

Remove squeezelite Configurations and Data

To remove squeezelite configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge squeezelite

Remove squeezelite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squeezelite

Dependencies

squeezelite have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.