HOW TO INSTALL DEADBEEF UBUNTU MUSIC PLAYER (DEADBEEF PLAYER) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Deadbeef Ubuntu music player (Deadbeef player) in Ubuntu 16.04. Deadbeef is a open source best Linux music player. You can download the source code of this application on Github. Deadbeef was developed by Alexey Yakovenko on year 2009 using C ++ & C programming language and released under GNU GPLv2 license.

Now let’s have a look at features of Deadbeef Ubuntu music player (Deadbeef player) :

• It’s an cross platform application available for Major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, MacOS, Solaris.
• Deadbeef best Linux music player is also available for mobile devices i.e. Android.
• Supports various audio formats i.e. wma, mp3, wav, tta, ogg…etc…
• Can be operate the music player through keyboard shortcuts & hotkeys.
• Sort music’s by different categories like Title, Track Number, Album, Artist…etc…
• Enable and configure proxy settings to use the Deadbeef best Linux music player on proxy based internet environment.
• Skip music tracks to next album, next artist, next composer, previous album, previous composer and many more.

For more informations and features of Deadbeef you can visit the official website.

Follow the below steps to install Deadbeef Ubuntu music player (Deadbeef player) in Ubuntu 16.04 – a best Linux music player

Before start the installation of Deadbeef Ubuntu music player (Deadbeef player) we have to install the official PPA repository for that as it’s not a part of default repository of Ubuntu 16.04. So to install the PPA repository use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player   # Install PPA Repository
[sudo] password for elinuxbook: 
 deadbeef player PPA. Bugs or questions? Email me starws.box[at]gmail.com
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~starws-box/+archive/ubuntu/deadbeef-player
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmps3389c25/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmps3389c25/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 2DD154A1 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmps3389c25/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 2DD154A1: public key "Launchpad PPA for starws" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

After installing the PPA repository now let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command to take effect.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories   
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/starws-box/deadbeef-player/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                          
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease        
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease               
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

Now we are ready to install the Deadbeef best Linux music player package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install deadbeef   # Install the Deadbeef player Package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  javascript-common libappindicator1 libblas-common libblas3 libboost-python1.58.0 libgfortran3 libglade2-0 libindicator7 libjavascriptcoregtk-3.0-0 libjs-excanvas
  libjs-jquery libjs-jquery-ui libjs-mootools libjs-sphinxdoc libjs-underscore liblapack3 libleveldb1v5 libqt5clucene5 libqt5designer5 libqt5help5 libtidy-0.99-0
.
.
  The following additional packages will be installed:
  libgif7 libid3tag0 libimlib2 libjansson4 libmpg123-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  deadbeef libgif7 libid3tag0 libimlib2 libjansson4 libmpg123-0
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 445 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,361 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.5 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 Deadbeef Ubuntu music player (Deadbeef player) package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l deadbeef   # 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  deadbeef                             0.7.2-1~xenial~ppa1     amd64                   Audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11

Now to open the application just type the command deadbeef on shell prompt. Refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ deadbeef   # Open Deadbeef player 

You can also open the Deadbeef best Linux music player application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

To uninstall the application use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r deadbeef   # Uninstall the Deadbeef best Linux music player package
(Reading database ... 180704 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing deadbeef (0.7.2-1~xenial~ppa1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
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...

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