How To Install draai on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install draai
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is draai
draai is:
Draai is a wrapper around mpc, making playing music from the commandline more enjoyable. mpc is a client for MPD, the Music Player Daemon. Using draai, one can play an audiofile (ogg, mp3, whatever your MPD offers), play all files in a predefined playlist, view details on current, past and future playing songs, skip to the next song, etc.
The interface is purely command-line. No fancy gui’s whatsoever. Draai consists of one zsh shell script, calling mpc.
Main differences with mpc: draai supports smooth fadeouts, draai can be used as an alarmclock, draai supports rescheduling a track as the upcoming track, draai offers fancy status windows. When draai starts playing the next song it informs syslog about it, including all details about the song; a “tail -F” on syslog yields a nice playlist history. Like mpc, draai comes with full zsh tabcompletion support. The author uses draai for doing DJ sets in clubs. If you, like the author, are a Unix sysadmin who likes to play music, you’ll like draai.
Next to draai itself, the package installs some extra utilities for dealing with audio files.
There are three methods to install draai
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install draai Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install draai
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install draai
Install draai Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install draai
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install draai
Install draai 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 draai
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install draai
How To Uninstall draai on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the draai
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove draai
Uninstall draai And Its Dependencies
To uninstall draai
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove draai
Remove draai Configurations and Data
To remove draai
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge draai
Remove draai configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove draai
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge draai
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install draai
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.