How To Install mopidy-soundcloud on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy-soundcloud on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mopidy-soundcloud
mopidy-soundcloud 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 SoundCloud music streaming service. A free SoundCloud user account is required to make use of this package.
There are three methods to install mopidy-soundcloud 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-soundcloud 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-soundcloud using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mopidy-soundcloud
Install mopidy-soundcloud Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mopidy-soundcloud using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mopidy-soundcloud
Install mopidy-soundcloud 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-soundcloud using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mopidy-soundcloud
How To Uninstall mopidy-soundcloud on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mopidy-soundcloud package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mopidy-soundcloud
Uninstall mopidy-soundcloud And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mopidy-soundcloud and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mopidy-soundcloud
Remove mopidy-soundcloud Configurations and Data
To remove mopidy-soundcloud configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mopidy-soundcloud
Remove mopidy-soundcloud configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mopidy-soundcloud configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mopidy-soundcloud
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy-soundcloud package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
