How To Install audacious-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is audacious-plugins
audacious-plugins is:
Audacious is a fork of beep-media-player which supports winamp skins and many codecs.
In the default install, the following codecs are supported:
- MP3
- Ogg Vorbis
- AAC and AAC+
- FLAC
- Windows Media (WMA)
- Many module formats and much more!
Additionally, Audacious is extendable through plugins, and contains other useful features like LIRC support.
This package contains the plugins for Audacious.
- Audio CD reading
- MPEG support (mp3)
- Ogg Vorbis support
- Windows Media support (WMA)
- AAC support
- FLAC support
- ALAC support
- WAVE support
- ALSA output
- OSS output
- Disk writer output
- And many more!
There are three methods to install audacious-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install audacious-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install audacious-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install audacious-plugins
Install audacious-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install audacious-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install audacious-plugins
Install audacious-plugins 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install audacious-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install audacious-plugins
How To Uninstall audacious-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the audacious-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove audacious-plugins
Uninstall audacious-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall audacious-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove audacious-plugins
Remove audacious-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove audacious-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge audacious-plugins
Remove audacious-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove audacious-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audacious-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install audacious-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
