How To Install banshee-extension-telepathy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-telepathy on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is banshee-extension-telepathy
banshee-extension-telepathy is:
This extension provides integration between the Empathy instant messenger and Banshee. It provides the following features:
- Download your friends’ Banshee library metadata and check out what they listen to, their ratings, BPM values, etc.
- View your friends’ playlists and export them to disk
- Share what you’re listening to with all your instant messaging friends by advertising the track, artist, and album of the currently playing track in Empathy’s status message. This can be disabled.
- Download your friends’ music; one track at a time or a selection. You can cancel ones in progress, queued, individually or all at once. The sender has the option to cancel all in progress or queued transfers only. Both sender and receiver get a progress bar. File sharing can be disabled.
- Stream your friends’ music. This feature can be disabled.
Banshee is a media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop.
There are three methods to install banshee-extension-telepathy 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 banshee-extension-telepathy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install banshee-extension-telepathy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install banshee-extension-telepathy
Install banshee-extension-telepathy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install banshee-extension-telepathy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install banshee-extension-telepathy
Install banshee-extension-telepathy 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 banshee-extension-telepathy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install banshee-extension-telepathy
How To Uninstall banshee-extension-telepathy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the banshee-extension-telepathy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove banshee-extension-telepathy
Uninstall banshee-extension-telepathy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall banshee-extension-telepathy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove banshee-extension-telepathy
Remove banshee-extension-telepathy Configurations and Data
To remove banshee-extension-telepathy configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge banshee-extension-telepathy
Remove banshee-extension-telepathy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove banshee-extension-telepathy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge banshee-extension-telepathy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install banshee-extension-telepathy package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
