How To Install mopidy-beets on Debian 10

Learn how to install mopidy-beets on Debian 10 with this tutorial. mopidy-beets is Mopidy extension for playing music from Beets web plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy-beets on Debian 10.

What is mopidy-beets

mopidy-beets is:

Mopidy is a music server which can play music from multiple sources, like your local hard drive, radio streams, and from Spotify and SoundCloud.

This package provides a Mopidy extension for playing music from the web plugin of the Beets music library organizer.

There are three methods to install mopidy-beets 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 mopidy-beets Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mopidy-beets

Install mopidy-beets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mopidy-beets

Install mopidy-beets 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 mopidy-beets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mopidy-beets

How To Uninstall mopidy-beets on Debian 10

To uninstall only the mopidy-beets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mopidy-beets

Uninstall mopidy-beets And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mopidy-beets

Remove mopidy-beets Configurations and Data

To remove mopidy-beets configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mopidy-beets

Remove mopidy-beets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mopidy-beets

Dependencies

mopidy-beets have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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