How To Install python3-rgain3 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 python3-rgain3 on Ubuntu.

What is `python3-rgain3`

python3-rgain3 is:

This package provides a Python package to calculate the Replay Gain values of audio files, and store those values in the files as metadata. Media players that support Replay Gain will use this information to adjust the volume during playback, so that all tracks sound equally loud.

Replay Gain is a proposed standard designed to solve the problem of varying volumes across audio files. For more information see https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=ReplayGain.

This library is primarily intended to be used by the replaygain package, and its API is not necessarily stable.

There are three methods to install python3-rgain3 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 python3-rgain3 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-rgain3 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install python3-rgain3

Install python3-rgain3 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install python3-rgain3 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install python3-rgain3

Install python3-rgain3 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 python3-rgain3 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install python3-rgain3

How To Uninstall python3-rgain3 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the python3-rgain3 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove python3-rgain3

Uninstall python3-rgain3 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall python3-rgain3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove python3-rgain3

Remove python3-rgain3 Configurations and Data

To remove python3-rgain3 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge python3-rgain3

Remove python3-rgain3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove python3-rgain3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge python3-rgain3

Dependencies

python3-rgain3 have the following dependencies:

References

python3-rgain3 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install python3-rgain3 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.