How To Install btag on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install btag on Ubuntu 22.04. btag is interactive command-line based multimedia tag editor

Introduction

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

What is btag

btag is:

btag is an interactive utility for tagging multimedia files in batches. tries to automate most of the process by stripping away stray whitespace guessing the best capitalization style for the text fields and keeping state on the current album being tagged.

btag can change the capitalization of text fields even when those contain non-ASCII characters, relying on the standard library to perform the appropriate case conversions. It works on directories containing complete albums as well as on individual files.

All tag formats supported by TagLib should be supported by btag. This includes (among others) ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags found in MP3 files, Ogg Vorbis comments, ID3 tags and Vorbis comments in FLAC files.

There are three methods to install btag 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 btag Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install btag

Install btag Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install btag

Install btag 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 btag using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install btag

How To Uninstall btag on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove btag

Uninstall btag And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove btag

Remove btag Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge btag

Remove btag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge btag

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Summary

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