How To Install easytag on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install easytag on Ubuntu.

What is `easytag`

easytag is:

EasyTAG is an utility for viewing, editing and writing the tags of different audio files, using a GTK+ interface.

Currently EasyTAG supports the following:

View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Opus, Ogg Speex and Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/M4A/AAC files (MPEG-4 Part 10 tag), and MusePack, Monkey’s Audio files (APE tag);
Auto tagging: parse file and directory names using masks to automatically fill in tag fields;
Cover art support for all formats;
Rename files from the tag fields (using masks) or by loading a text file;
Process selected files of the selected directory;
Ability to browse subdirectories;
Recursion for tagging, removing, renaming, saving, etc;
Can set a field (artist, title, …) on all other selected files;
Read file header information (bitrate, time, …) and display it;
Undo and redo last changes;
Ability to process tag fields and file names (convert letters into uppercase, lowercase, etc);
Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program;
CDDB support (from http protocol);
A tree based browser;
A list to select files;
A playlist generator window;
A file searching window;
Simple and explicit interface.

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

Install easytag Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install easytag

Install easytag Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install easytag

Install easytag 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 easytag using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install easytag

How To Uninstall easytag on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove easytag

Uninstall easytag And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove easytag

Remove easytag Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge easytag

Remove easytag configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge easytag

Dependencies

easytag have the following dependencies:

References

easytag website

Summary

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