How To Install radiotray on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radiotray on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is radiotray
radiotray is:
This is a simple music streaming player that lives on the system tray. By clicking on the RadioTray icon, you’ll be presented with a list of pre-configured online radios. By selecting one of those radios, it will start playing.
There are three methods to install radiotray 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 radiotray Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radiotray using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radiotray
Install radiotray Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radiotray using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radiotray
Install radiotray 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 radiotray using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radiotray
How To Uninstall radiotray on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the radiotray package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radiotray
Uninstall radiotray And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radiotray and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radiotray
Remove radiotray Configurations and Data
To remove radiotray configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radiotray
Remove radiotray configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radiotray configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radiotray
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radiotray package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
