HOW TO INSTALL LOLLYPOP MUSIC PLAYER (MODERN MUSIC PLAYER) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER
HOW TO INSTALL LOLLYPOP MUSIC PLAYER (MODERN MUSIC PLAYER) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Lollypop music player in Ubuntu 16.04. Lollypop is a open source modern music player used to play music files, songs and so on. It’s an best linux music player comes with nice features mentioned below :
- It supports music file formats like mp3, ogg, mp4, flac…etc..
- Capable of play music directly from web.
- If you have so many music’s in your collection and finding difficulty to search right music then in that case lollypop music player will help you to search songs by catagories like by artists name, movie name, album name, by song title…etc…
- you can keep multiple songs in queue to play one after one automatically.
- Lollypop music player capable of provide informations of artists, album, lyrics information of music’s/songs directly from web.
For more information on Lollypop Music Player you can visit the official website Here!
Follow the below steps to install Lollypop Music Player (Modern Music Player) in Ubuntu 16.04
Before we start the installation we have to install required PPA repository for that. So to install the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop # Install PPA Repository
Lollypop media player
More info: https://launchpad.net/~gnumdk/+archive/ubuntu/lollypop
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpnzlivq4e/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpnzlivq4e/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 7AA84500 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpnzlivq4e/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 7AA84500: public key "Launchpad PPA for Bellegarde Cedric" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1 (RSA: 1)
OK
After installing the PPA repository let’s go ahead and update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update the Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/dawidd0811/neofetch/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deluge-team/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Ign:3 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily InRelease
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnumdk/lollypop/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kritalime/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Hit:10 http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu wily Release
Reading package lists... Done
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Finally install the Lollypop Music Player package using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install lollypop # Installing Lollypop Modern Music Player
We have successfully installed the Lollypop best linux music player in Ubuntu 16.04. To confirm the same you can use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l lollypop # 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 lollypop 0.9.244-1ppa1ubuntu1.3 all Lollypop is a GNOME music playing application.
Now to open the Lollypop music player just type the command lollypop on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ lollypop # Open the Lollypop Best Linux Music Player
LOLLYPOP MUSIC PLAYER (BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER)
You can also open the Lollypop music player application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN LOLLYPOP MODERN MUSIC PLAYER GRAPHICALLY
To uninstalled the Lollypop Modern Music Player package use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r lollypop # Uninstall the Package
(Reading database ... 277808 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lollypop (0.9.244-1ppa1ubuntu1.3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.2-0ubuntu1) ...
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...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
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