How To Install cantata on Fedora 34

cantata is Music Player Daemon (MPD) graphical client

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cantata on Fedora 34.

What is cantata

Cantata is a graphical client for the music player daemon (MPD). Features * Multiple MPD collections. * Highly customisable layout. * Songs grouped by album in play queue. * Context view to show artist, album, and song information of current track. * Simple tag editor. * File organizer - use tags to organize files and folders. * Ability to calculate ReplyGain tags. * Dynamic playlists. * Online services; Jamendo, Magnatune, SoundCloud, and Podcasts. * Radio stream support - with the ability to search for streams via TuneIn and ShoutCast. * USB-Mass-Storage and MTP device support. * Audio CD ripping and playback. * Playback of non-MPD songs, via simple in-built HTTP server. * MPRISv2 DBUS interface. * Support for KDE global shortcuts (KDE builds), GNOME media keys, and generic media keys (via Qxt support) * Ubuntu/ambiance theme integration.

We can use yum or dnf to install cantata on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cantata.

Install cantata on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cantata using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cantata

Install cantata on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cantata using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cantata

How To Uninstall cantata on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the cantata package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cantata

cantata Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cantata
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/08b09e2446d4f3bac582abd8d6cfb0a54df8a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/39
/usr/lib/.build-id/39/a5329330776227954080827b5798a8233bc84a
/usr/lib/cantata
/usr/lib/cantata/cantata-tags
/usr/share/applications/cantata.desktop
/usr/share/cantata
/usr/share/cantata/icons
/usr/share/cantata/icons/podcasts.png
/usr/share/cantata/icons/soundcloud.png
/usr/share/cantata/icons/stream.png
/usr/share/cantata/scripts
/usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-dynamic
/usr/share/cantata/scripts/cantata-remote
/usr/share/cantata/translations
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_cs.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_da.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_de.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_en_GB.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_es.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_fi.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_fr.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_hu.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_it.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_ja.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_ko.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_nl.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_pl.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_ru.qm
/usr/share/cantata/translations/cantata_zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/doc/cantata
/usr/share/doc/cantata/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/cantata/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/cantata/README
/usr/share/doc/cantata/TODO
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/cantata.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/cantata.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/cantata-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/cantata
/usr/share/licenses/cantata/LICENSE

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cantata on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.