How To Install squeezelite-pulseaudio on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite-pulseaudio
on Debian 12.
What is squeezelite-pulseaudio
squeezelite-pulseaudio 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 PulseAudio for audio output.
There are three methods to install squeezelite-pulseaudio
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 squeezelite-pulseaudio 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-pulseaudio
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squeezelite-pulseaudio
Install squeezelite-pulseaudio Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squeezelite-pulseaudio
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squeezelite-pulseaudio
Install squeezelite-pulseaudio 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-pulseaudio
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squeezelite-pulseaudio
How To Uninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio on Debian 12
To uninstall only the squeezelite-pulseaudio
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squeezelite-pulseaudio
Uninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squeezelite-pulseaudio
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squeezelite-pulseaudio
Remove squeezelite-pulseaudio Configurations and Data
To remove squeezelite-pulseaudio
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squeezelite-pulseaudio
Remove squeezelite-pulseaudio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squeezelite-pulseaudio
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squeezelite-pulseaudio
Dependencies
squeezelite-pulseaudio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squeezelite-pulseaudio
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.