How To Install kid3-core 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 kid3-core on Ubuntu.
What is kid3-core
kid3-core is:
With Kid3, an ID3 tag editor for KDE you can:
- Edit ID3v1.1 tags in your MP3 files
- Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames in your MP3 files
- Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
- Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, Opus, DSF, FLAC, MPC, APE, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV, AIFF files and tracker modules.
- Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together
- Generate tags from filenames
- Generate tags from the contents of tag fields
- Generate filenames from tags
- Generate playlist files
- Automatic case conversion and string translation
- Import and export album data
- Import from gnudb.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon
This package contains common libraries and data used by both kid3 and kid3-qt.
There are three methods to install kid3-core 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 kid3-core Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kid3-core using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kid3-core
Install kid3-core Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kid3-core using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kid3-core
Install kid3-core 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 kid3-core using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kid3-core
How To Uninstall kid3-core on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the kid3-core package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kid3-core
Uninstall kid3-core And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kid3-core and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kid3-core
Remove kid3-core Configurations and Data
To remove kid3-core configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kid3-core
Remove kid3-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kid3-core configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kid3-core
Dependencies
kid3-core have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kid3-core package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.