How To Install mpdscribble on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpdscribble
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mpdscribble
mpdscribble is:
Music Player Daemon client which collects information about played tracks and submits them to the Last.fm social music network (formerly known as Audioscrobbler). If submission servers are not reachable, submissions are enqueued and stored on disk cache.
The client can be also configured to use other scrobbling services like Libre.fm.
This package contains daemon which can be optionally installed system wide.
There are three methods to install mpdscribble
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mpdscribble Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mpdscribble
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mpdscribble
Install mpdscribble Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mpdscribble
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mpdscribble
Install mpdscribble 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 mpdscribble
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mpdscribble
How To Uninstall mpdscribble on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mpdscribble
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mpdscribble
Uninstall mpdscribble And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mpdscribble
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpdscribble
Remove mpdscribble Configurations and Data
To remove mpdscribble
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mpdscribble
Remove mpdscribble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mpdscribble
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpdscribble
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mpdscribble
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.