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There are metapackages (groups of packages) in Debian. I am not aware a a global multimedia Debian metapackage There are some multimedia metapackages, though: $ apt search multimedia- [...] multimedia-ambisonics/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with ambisonics (3D surround sound) multimedia-animation/stable 0.7 all Packages for creating animations multimedia-audio-plugins/stable 0.7 all Audio processing plugins, synths and virtual instruments multimedia-audio-utilities/stable 0.7 all packages for manipulating & cataloging music and audio multimedia-broadcasting/stable 0.7 all Packages for broadcasting media publicly or in the home multimedia-csound/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with Csound multimedia-devel/stable 0.7 all Extra packages for developers and package compiling multimedia-djing/stable 0.7 all Packages for Disk Jockeys multimedia-drums/stable 0.7 all Packages for drums & beats multimedia-firewire/stable 0.7 all Packages for your firewire audiocard / interface multimedia-graphics/stable 0.7 all Packages for making and editing artwork multimedia-guitar/stable 0.7 all Packages for playing with your (virtual) guitar gear multimedia-jack/stable 0.7 all JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) and ALSA related packages multimedia-ladi/stable 0.7 all LADI, Linuxaudio session management, packages multimedia-looping/stable 0.7 all Packages for looping music and audio multimedia-midi/stable 0.7 all MIDI related packages multimedia-mixing/stable 0.7 all Packages for mixing and mastering your music multimedia-musiciantools/stable 0.7 all Packages for musicians multimedia-photography/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with digital photography multimedia-players/stable 0.7 all Packages which makes your multimedia tools complete multimedia-puredata/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with Pure Data multimedia-recording/stable 0.7 all Packages for audio recording multimedia-samplers/stable 0.7 all Software samplers multimedia-soundsynthesis/stable 0.7 all Packages for sound synthesis multimedia-supercollider/stable 0.7 all Packages for working with SuperCollider multimedia-tasks/stable 0.7 all Debian Multimedia tasks for tasksel [...] So if, for example, you want "multimedia" for playing multimedia (audio, video...), you could do: $ sudo apt install multimedia-players Chances are that you don't need an additional media-player (you have one if you have installed a Desktop Environment (Gnome by default)) but you need proprietary codecs for decoding certain media files. You would probably read the Codecs article in the Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/MultimediaCodecs?action=show&redirect=DebianMultimedia%2FMultimediaCodecs If you really want to install all related multimedia metapackages, I thinkk you could do: $ sudo apt install multimedia-* But it would install a huge number of packages.
