How To Install mopidy on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mopidy
mopidy is:
Mopidy plays music from local disk, Spotify, SoundCloud, Google Play Music, and more. You can edit the playlist from any phone, tablet, or computer using a variety of MPD and web clients.
Vanilla Mopidy only plays music from files and radio streams. Through extensions, Mopidy can play music from cloud services like Spotify, SoundCloud, and Google Play Music.
There are three methods to install mopidy
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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 22.04
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 Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mopidy
Remove mopidy Configurations and Data
To remove mopidy
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mopidy
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.