How to install Audacious media player in Debian 8.3
To install Audacious in Debian 8.3
Audacious is a free, open source and high quality audio player. It is known for its low resource usage and it supports a wide range of audio formats. It can get several additional features through third party plugins. Installing Audacious is quite simple. The installation of the latest version of Audacious in Ubuntu has already been covered. This article sheds light on the installation process involved with Audacious on Debian.
Installing Audacious
Initiate the installation of Audacious Music Player by adding the repo by using the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Once it is done, update the apt source by invoking the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release
Get:2 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease [63.1 kB]
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease
Get:3 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.4 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [6,916 B]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:7 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [189 kB]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable Release
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/contrib Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Translation-en
Hit http://ftp.debian.org stable/non-free Translation-en
Get:10 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources [1,439 B]
Get:11 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [349 kB]
Get:12 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64 Packages [2,506 B]
Get:13 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Translation-en [1,211 B]
Get:14 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [185 kB]
Fetched 961 kB in 18s (52.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now is the time to install Audacious and its plugins. Use apt-get install command for the same purpose.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install audacious audacious-plugins
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
audacious-plugins-data libaudcore2 libbinio1ldbl libbs2b0 libcue1 libguess1
libsidplayfp3
Suggested packages:
sidplayfp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
audacious audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data libaudcore2 libbinio1ldbl
libbs2b0 libcue1 libguess1 libsidplayfp3
0 upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 271 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,963 kB of archives.
After this operation, 9,232 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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Preparing to unpack .../audacious_3.5-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking audacious (3.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.0.2-5) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Setting up audacious-plugins-data (3.5-1) ...
Setting up libguess1:amd64 (1.2-1) ...
Setting up libaudcore2:amd64 (3.5-2) ...
Setting up libbinio1ldbl:amd64 (1.4+dfsg1-4) ...
Setting up libbs2b0 (3.1.0+dfsg-2.1) ...
Setting up libcue1 (1.4.0-1) ...
Setting up libsidplayfp3:amd64 (1.6.0-1) ...
Setting up audacious-plugins:amd64 (3.5-1+b2) ...
Setting up audacious (3.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...
Audacious is now ready to be used. Click on the activities and type audacious to access it.
Enjoy playing your audio files through Audacious player.
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