How To Install exaile on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install exaile on CentOS 7. exaile is A simple but powerful Amarok-style music player for GTK users

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install exaile on CentOS 7.

What is exaile

Exaile is a music player with a simple interface and powerful music management capabilities. Features include automatic fetching of album art, lyrics fetching, streaming internet radio, tabbed playlists, smart playlists with extensive filtering/search capabilities, and much more. Exaile is written using Python and GTK+ and is easily extensible via plugins. There are over 50 plugins distributed with Exaile that include advanced track tagging, last.fm scrobbling, support for portable media players, podcasts, internet radio such as icecast and Soma.FM, ReplayGain, output via a secondary output device (great for DJs!), and much more.

We can use yum or dnf to install exaile on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exaile.

Install exaile on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install exaile

Install exaile on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install exaile

How To Uninstall exaile on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove exaile

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install exaile on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.