HOW TO INSTALL BANSHEE MEDIA PLAYER IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MEDIA PLAYER
HOW TO INSTALL BANSHEE MEDIA PLAYER IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MEDIA PLAYER
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Banshee media player in Ubuntu 16.04. Banshee is a best Linux media player used to play media files like songs, music, videos…etc..and mainly designed for GNOME based systems. It’s an cross platform application available for major operating systems like Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS. Banshee media player was initially developed by Aaron Bockove on year 2005 using C# programming language and released under MIT license.
Banshee is an nice light weight best Linux media player application comes with some nice features mentioned below :
- You can play internet radio using this application.
- Banshee best linux media player capable of sync music and video files with your smartphone & other media player devices.
- Able to change/update metadata information of music file eg : artist name, movie name, album name and so on.
- Create playlist of you own selected favorite songs.
For more information on Banshee best Linux media player you can visit the official website.
Follow the below steps to install Banshee media player in Ubuntu 16.04 – A best Linux media player
Before we start the installation let’s update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Now we are ready to install banshee media player package. To install the same we don’t need to install any 3rd party PPA repository as it’s an part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install banshee # Install Banshee Best Linux media player package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree s Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: banshee-extension-soundmenu binfmt-support brasero brasero-cdrkit brasero-common ca-certificates-mono cli-common dvd+rw-tools gnome-icon-theme growisofs libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libdbus2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil libgdiplus libgif7 libgkeyfile1.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgtk2.0-cil libgudev1.0-cil libisofs6 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjte1 libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libtaglib2.1-cil libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common libwnck-common libwnck22 mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen wodim Suggested packages: gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg banshee-dbg vcdimager libdvdcss2 dvdauthor readom cdrskin cdrdao gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3 monodoc-gtk2.0-manual libmono-i18n4.0-all libgamin0 cdrkit-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: banshee banshee-extension-soundmenu binfmt-support brasero brasero-cdrkit brasero-common ca-certificates-mono cli-common dvd+rw-tools gnome-icon-theme growisofs libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus-glib2.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libdbus2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil libgdiplus libgif7 libgkeyfile1.0-cil libglib2.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgtk2.0-cil libgudev1.0-cil libisofs6 libjavascriptcoregtk-1.0-0 libjte1 libmono-addins0.2-cil libmono-cairo4.0-cil libmono-corlib4.5-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil libmono-i18n-west4.0-cil libmono-i18n4.0-cil libmono-posix4.0-cil libmono-security4.0-cil libmono-sharpzip4.84-cil libmono-system-configuration4.0-cil libmono-system-core4.0-cil libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-drawing4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil libmono-system-security4.0-cil libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-system-xml4.0-cil libmono-system4.0-cil libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libtaglib2.1-cil libwebkitgtk-1.0-0 libwebkitgtk-1.0-common libwnck-common libwnck22 mono-4.0-gac mono-gac mono-runtime mono-runtime-common mono-runtime-sgen wodim 0 upgraded, 65 newly installed, 0 to remove and 398 not upgraded. Need to get 33.2 MB of archives. After this operation, 121 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation
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As you can see above we have successfully installed the Banshee media player package. To confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l banshee # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii banshee 2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubun amd64 Media Management and Playback application
Now to open the application just type the command banshee on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ banshee # Open the Banshee Best Linux media player
BANSHEE MEDIA PLAYER (BEST LINUX MEDIA PLAYER)
You can also open the Banshee media player application graphically using search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN BANSHEE MEDIA PLAYER GRAPHICALLY
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To uninstall the application you can use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r banshee-extension-soundmenu # Uninstall the Addon First (Reading database ... 182649 files and directories currently installed.) Removing banshee-extension-soundmenu (2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubuntu2) ... elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r banshee # Now uninstall the Banshee best Linux media player (Reading database ... 182645 files and directories currently installed.) Removing banshee (2.9.0+really2.6.2-7ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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