How To Install gimmix on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimmix on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gimmix
gimmix is:
Gimmix is a graphical music player daemon (MPD) client using GTK+2. It’s very simple and easy to use, yet offers many features to make your audio experience a pleasant one.
Features :
- Simple and Clean Interface.
- Library Browser.
- Library search. (search by artist, album, filename, etc)
- Playlist management (manage mpd playlists)
- ID3v2 tag editing support.
- System tray icon support.
- Support for controlling gimmix through Keyboard.
- Notification support (Displays the currently playing song in systray).
- Small memory footprint.
There are three methods to install gimmix 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 gimmix Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gimmix using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gimmix
Install gimmix Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gimmix using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gimmix
Install gimmix 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 gimmix using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gimmix
How To Uninstall gimmix on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gimmix package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gimmix
Uninstall gimmix And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gimmix and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gimmix
Remove gimmix Configurations and Data
To remove gimmix configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gimmix
Remove gimmix configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gimmix configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gimmix
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gimmix package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
