How To Install icecream on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream on Ubuntu 22.04. icecream is lightweight stream download utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is icecream

icecream is:

icecream is a non-interactive stream download utility written in Perl. It connects to icecast and shoutcast servers or direct stream URLs, and redirects all fetched content to stdout and/or to media files on your disk.

Listen to the stream piping the output to a stdin-capable media player. Save the stream to a named file or split it into different tracks. It is possible to redirect the stream and save it to disk at the same time.

There are three methods to install icecream on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install icecream Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install icecream

Install icecream Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install icecream

Install icecream 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 icecream using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install icecream

How To Uninstall icecream on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove icecream

Uninstall icecream And Its Dependencies

To uninstall icecream and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove icecream

Remove icecream Configurations and Data

To remove icecream configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge icecream

Remove icecream configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icecream

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icecream package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.