How To Install moc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install moc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is moc
moc is:
moc (music on console) is a full-screen player designed to be powerful and easy to use.
Supported file formats are: MP3, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, OPUS, WAVE, SPEEX, Musepack (MPC), AIFF, AU (and other less popular formats supported by libsndfile). New formats support is under development.
Other features: simple mixer, colour themes, searching the menu (the playlist or a directory) like M-s in Midnight Commander, the way MOC creates titles from tags is configurable, optional character set conversion for file tags using iconv(), OSS or ALSA output.
There are three methods to install moc 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 moc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install moc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install moc
Install moc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install moc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install moc
Install moc 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 moc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install moc
How To Uninstall moc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the moc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove moc
Uninstall moc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall moc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove moc
Remove moc Configurations and Data
To remove moc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge moc
Remove moc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove moc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moc
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install moc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.