How To Install librcc-dev 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 librcc-dev on Ubuntu.

What is `librcc-dev`

librcc-dev is:

Originally, the project was aimed to provide means to work with multiple encodings

Language Autodetection
On the fly translation between languages, using online-services!
Encoding Autodetection for most of European Languages1
Support for encoding detection plugins (besides Enca and LibRCD)
Recoding/translation of multi-language playlists!
Cache to speed-up re-recoding.
Possibility to configure new languages and encodings.
Shared configuration file. For example mentioned TagLib and LibID3 patches do not have their own user interface, but will utilize the same recoding configuration as XMMS.
As well the separate program for configuration adjustment is available.
GTK/GTK2 UI Library: you can add properties page to your GTK+ application with 3 lines of code.
Menu localization opportunity This package contains the include files, static library and development tools for librcc, as well as the testlibraw program.

There are three methods to install librcc-dev 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 librcc-dev Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install librcc-dev

Install librcc-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install librcc-dev

Install librcc-dev 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 librcc-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install librcc-dev

How To Uninstall librcc-dev on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the librcc-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove librcc-dev

Uninstall librcc-dev And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove librcc-dev

Remove librcc-dev Configurations and Data

To remove librcc-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge librcc-dev

Remove librcc-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge librcc-dev

Dependencies

librcc-dev have the following dependencies:

References

librcc-dev website

Summary

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