How To Install mopidy-beets on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy-beets on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, 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 Ubuntu 18.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy-beets package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
