How To Install ripit 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 ripit on Ubuntu.
What is ripit
ripit is:
ripit runs in text mode (no fancy GUI here) and does everything required to produce a set of mp3, ogg, flac, m4a files without any user-intervention.
ripit does the following with an Audio CD:
- Get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB
- Get the audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from Musicbrainz
- Rip the audio CD Tracks (using cdparanoia or other cdrippers)
- Encode the files (using lame, oggvorbis flac and/or faac)
- ID3 tag them (v1 & v2)
- Optional: creates a playlist (M3U) file (lists MP3s created, used by various MP3 players)
- Optional: Prepares and sends a CDDB submission.
- Optional: Saves the CDDB file.
There are three methods to install ripit 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 ripit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ripit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ripit
Install ripit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ripit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ripit
Install ripit 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 ripit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ripit
How To Uninstall ripit on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the ripit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ripit
Uninstall ripit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ripit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ripit
Remove ripit Configurations and Data
To remove ripit configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ripit
Remove ripit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ripit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ripit
Dependencies
ripit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ripit package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.