How To Install cmus on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmus on Ubuntu 20.04. cmus is lightweight ncurses audio player

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmus on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is cmus

cmus is:

C* Music Player is a modular and very configurable ncurses-based audio player. It has some interesting features like configurable colorscheme, mp3 and ogg streaming, it can be controlled with an UNIX socket, filters, album/artists sorting and a vi-like configuration interface.

It currently supports different input formats:

  • Ogg Vorbis
  • MP3 (with libmad)
  • FLAC
  • Wav
  • Modules (with libmodplug)
  • Musepack
  • AAC
  • Windows Media Audio

There are three methods to install cmus on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cmus Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cmus using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cmus

Install cmus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cmus using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cmus

Install cmus 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 cmus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cmus

How To Uninstall cmus on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cmus

Uninstall cmus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cmus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cmus

Remove cmus Configurations and Data

To remove cmus configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cmus

Remove cmus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cmus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cmus

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cmus package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.