How To Install mpdas on Fedora 34

mpdas is An MPD audioscrobbling client

Introduction

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

What is mpdas

mpdas is a MPD AudioScrobbler client supporting the 2.0 protocol specs. It is written in C++ and uses libmpd to retrieve the song data from MPD and libcurl to post it to Last.fm

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

Install mpdas 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 mpdas using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mpdas

Install mpdas 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 mpdas using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpdas

How To Uninstall mpdas on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mpdas

mpdas Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mpdas
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/ab9d88eb994ee874252a44010a78a0dd61d8fe
/usr/share/doc/mpdas
/usr/share/doc/mpdas/README
/usr/share/doc/mpdas/mpdasrc.example
/usr/share/licenses/mpdas
/usr/share/licenses/mpdas/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/mpdas.1.gz

References

Summary

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