How To Install radio 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 radio on Ubuntu.
What is radio
radio is:
XawTV is a set of software for watching and recording television channels and webcams.
This package provides a ncurses-based radio application. It supports the video4linux API.
There are three methods to install radio 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 radio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radio
Install radio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radio
Install radio 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 radio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radio
How To Uninstall radio on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the radio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radio
Uninstall radio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radio
Remove radio Configurations and Data
To remove radio configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radio
Remove radio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radio
Dependencies
radio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radio package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.