How To Install mopidy on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy on Debian 10.
What is mopidy
mopidy is:
Mopidy is an extensible music server which can play music from local files, radio streams, and cloud services such as Spotify and SoundCloud.
Searches combine results from all music sources, and tracks can be mixed from all sources in the play queue. Spotify or SoundCloud playlists are also available for use.
There are three methods to install mopidy 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mopidy
Install mopidy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mopidy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mopidy
Install mopidy 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mopidy
How To Uninstall mopidy on Debian 10
To uninstall only the mopidy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mopidy
Uninstall mopidy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mopidy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mopidy
Remove mopidy Configurations and Data
To remove mopidy configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mopidy
Remove mopidy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mopidy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mopidy
Dependencies
mopidy have the following dependencies:
- adduser
- debconf
- gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-1.0
- gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-good
- gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly
- lsb-base
- python-gst-1.0
- python-tornado
- debconf
- python-pkg-resources
- python-pykka
- python-requests
- python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.