How To Install moosic on Debian 10

Learn how to install moosic on Debian 10 with this tutorial. moosic is Daemon/client combo to easily queue music files for playing

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install moosic on Debian 10.

What is moosic

moosic is:

Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server’s queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.

There are three methods to install moosic on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install moosic Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install moosic

Install moosic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install moosic

Install moosic 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install moosic

How To Uninstall moosic on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove moosic

Uninstall moosic And Its Dependencies

To uninstall moosic and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove moosic

Remove moosic Configurations and Data

To remove moosic configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge moosic

Remove moosic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moosic

Dependencies

moosic have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install moosic package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.