How To Install streamlink on Debian 10

Learn how to install streamlink on Debian 10 with this tutorial. streamlink is CLI for extracting video streams from various websites to a video player

Introduction

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

streamlink is:

Streamlink is a CLI utility that pipes flash videos from online streaming services to a variety of video players such as VLC, or alternatively, a browser. The main purpose of streamlink is to convert CPU-heavy flash plugins to a less CPU-intensive format.

Streamlink is a fork of the Livestreamer project.

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There are three methods to install streamlink 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.

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install streamlink

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install streamlink

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 streamlink using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install streamlink

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

sudo apt-get remove streamlink

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove streamlink

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

sudo apt-get -y purge streamlink

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge streamlink

Dependencies

streamlink have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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