How to install Banshee on Debian 9.0
To install Banshee on Debian 9.0
Linux has an interesting and handy collection of media playing software. One such media player available for Linux is Banshee. It is an open-source and cross-platform media player, and it deploys GStreamer multimedia platform for the purpose of encoding and decoding various media formats which includes Ogg Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, etc. In this tutorial, you are going to learn about the method to install Banshee on Debian 9.0.
Installing Banshee
Before you start with the installation process, you need to add the necessary repo file to your system, it shall be done by running the following command.
root@debian:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Once added, the apt sources.list file ought to be updated. Use the following command for the same purpose.
root@debian:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable-updates InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease
Hit:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stable/updates InRelease
Ign:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable InRelease
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release [118 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib Sources [44.7 kB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/non-free Sources [79.7 kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Sources [6,749 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages [7,095 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main Translation-en [5,393 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,066 kB]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [6,804 kB]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian stable/contrib amd64 Packages [50.9 kB]
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Reading package lists... Done
You can now install the Banshee package as follows.
root@debian:~# apt-get install banshee
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
Use ' apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
binfmt-support binutils ca-certificates-mono cli-common gconf-service gconf2-common gnome-icon-theme
libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus2.0-cil libgconf-2-4 libgconf2.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil libgdiplus
libgkeyfile1.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgtk2.0-cil libgudev1.0-cil
libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libkarma0 libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil
libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil
libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil
libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil
libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil
libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil
libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil
libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil
libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libtaglib2.1-cil
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166 new root certificates were added to your trust store.
Import process completed.
Done
The installation is complete. You can access Banshee through your activities search bar. Type the package name on it to find and open it.
The Banshee application appears on your screen. You can use Banshee to play and import audio CDs. Banshee also supports many portable media players, which includes Apple' s iPod, Android devices and Creative' s ZEN players. Enjoy playing your media files via Banshee.