How To Install vlc-plugin-notify on Debian 12

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-notify on Debian 12.

What is vlc-plugin-notify

vlc-plugin-notify is:

VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, WebM, FLAC, MP3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, podcasts, and multimedia streams from various network sources.

This plugin adds support for libnotify track change notification to the VLC media player.

There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-notify 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 vlc-plugin-notify Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install vlc-plugin-notify

Install vlc-plugin-notify Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install vlc-plugin-notify using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-notify

Install vlc-plugin-notify 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 vlc-plugin-notify using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-notify

How To Uninstall vlc-plugin-notify on Debian 12

To uninstall only the vlc-plugin-notify package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-notify

Uninstall vlc-plugin-notify And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlc-plugin-notify

Remove vlc-plugin-notify Configurations and Data

To remove vlc-plugin-notify configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge vlc-plugin-notify

Remove vlc-plugin-notify configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove vlc-plugin-notify configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlc-plugin-notify

Dependencies

vlc-plugin-notify have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libnotify4
• libvlccore9
• vlc-plugin-abi-3-0-0f

References

• vlc-plugin-notify website
• vlc-plugin-notify on packages.debian.org

Summary

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