How To Install audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. audiofile-tools is sfinfo and sfconvert tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is audiofile-tools

audiofile-tools is:

The audiofile library allows the processing of audio data to and from audio files of many common formats (currently AIFF, AIFF-C, WAVE, NeXT/Sun, BICS, and raw data).

This package contains the sfinfo and sfconvert tools.

There are three methods to install audiofile-tools 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 audiofile-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install audiofile-tools

Install audiofile-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install audiofile-tools

Install audiofile-tools 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 audiofile-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install audiofile-tools

How To Uninstall audiofile-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the audiofile-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove audiofile-tools

Uninstall audiofile-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall audiofile-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove audiofile-tools

Remove audiofile-tools Configurations and Data

To remove audiofile-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge audiofile-tools

Remove audiofile-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge audiofile-tools

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install audiofile-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.