How To Install vlc-plugin-visualization on Debian 10

Learn how to install vlc-plugin-visualization on Debian 10 with this tutorial. vlc-plugin-visualization is multimedia player and streamer (visualization plugins)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vlc-plugin-visualization on Debian 10.

What is vlc-plugin-visualization

vlc-plugin-visualization 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 package contains the visualization plugins.

There are three methods to install vlc-plugin-visualization 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 vlc-plugin-visualization 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-visualization using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install vlc-plugin-visualization Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install vlc-plugin-visualization

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

sudo aptitude -y install vlc-plugin-visualization

How To Uninstall vlc-plugin-visualization on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove vlc-plugin-visualization

Uninstall vlc-plugin-visualization And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove vlc-plugin-visualization Configurations and Data

To remove vlc-plugin-visualization configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

vlc-plugin-visualization have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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