How To Install cantata on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cantata
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cantata
cantata is:
Cantata is a graphical front-end for the music player daemon, MPD. It provides many tools to view and manage the music collection including:
- library - sorted by album, artist, track, directory
- albums with cover art
- user defined playlists
- dynamic playlists
- streams, internet radio
- lyrics
- artist information from Wikipedia
- device support for USB mass storage, MTP and CDs
There are three methods to install cantata
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install cantata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cantata
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cantata
Install cantata Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cantata
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cantata
Install cantata 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 cantata
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cantata
How To Uninstall cantata on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cantata
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cantata
Uninstall cantata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cantata
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cantata
Remove cantata Configurations and Data
To remove cantata
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cantata
Remove cantata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cantata
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cantata
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cantata
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.