How to Install and Uninstall flac Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 29,2024

1. Install "flac" package

This is a short guide on how to install flac on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                flac
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "flac" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall flac on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                flac
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the flac package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: flac
Priority: optional
Section: universe/sound
Installed-Size: 424
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Multimedia Maintainers
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.3.1-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libflac8 (>= 1.3.0)
Filename: pool/universe/f/flac/flac_1.3.1-4_amd64.deb
Size: 143352
MD5sum: a1b87d99ffb9cbf8b04aaecb20892afa
SHA1: 6962f089fb51b6d30121114f52cb26999a298936
SHA256: 24ed9de159955be25fdf23cf866acd1afa2c5df7275758acc86072b01c4dce1b
Description-en: Free Lossless Audio Codec - command line tools
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is
similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:
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* The stream format
* libFLAC, which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder, and file
decoder
* flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode
.flac files
* Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the
works)
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This package contains the command-line tools flac (used for encoding and
decoding FLACs) and metaflac (used for manipulating FLAC metadata.)
Description-md5: f1560839832c89e0262853df6c9f7e62
Homepage: http://xiph.org/flac/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu