HOW TO INSTALL YAROCK MUSIC PLAYER APP IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER
HOW TO INSTALL YAROCK MUSIC PLAYER APP IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Yarock music player app in Ubuntu 16.04. Yarock is a open source best Linux music player. It’s an light weight and user friendly application to use. Yarock is a QT4 and QT5 based application developed using C++ programming language and released under GNU GPL license. It’s an feature rich application and review of this application is good, So you can give it a try. Now let’s have a look at features of Yarock music player app :
- Yarock best Linux music player supports various music file formats i.e. MP3, WAV, flac, Ogg, AAC…etc..
- You can categorize the songs by Albums, Tracks, Years, Favorite, Artists.
- Create a playlist of your favorite songs.
- Yarock music player app supports Radio stream i.e. Tunein, Radionomy, Dirble.
- You can easily Search music’s from the list.
- Supports various playlist file formats i.e. pls, xspf, m3u.
- Yarock music player app can operate from terminal.
Follow the below steps to install Yarock music player app in Ubuntu 16.04 – a best Linux music player
Before start the installation of Yarock music player app we have to install 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:nilarimogard/webupd8 # Install PPA Repository
The main Web Upd8 PPA maintained by: http://www.webupd8.org/
For other (specialized) PPAs we maintain, see: https://launchpad.net/~webupd8team
More info: https://launchpad.net/~nilarimogard/+archive/ubuntu/webupd8
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcypf1y62/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpcypf1y62/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 4C9D234C from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpcypf1y62/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 4C9D234C: public key "Launchpad webupd8" 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
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/audio-recorder/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/notepadqq-team/notepadqq/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Fetched 438 kB in 3s (134 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
After updating the packages & repositories now we are ready to install the Yarock best Linux music player Package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install yarock # Install the Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: The following NEW packages will be installed: freepats gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-faad gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad-videoparsers gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr i965-va-driver liba52-0.7.4 libaacs0 libass5 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbdplus0 libbluray1 libbs2b0 libchromaprint0 libcrystalhd3 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers phonon-backend-gstreamer-common phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer va-driver-all yarock The following packages will be upgraded: libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm2 2 upgraded, 91 newly installed, 0 to remove and 247 not upgraded. Need to get 75.5 MB of archives. After this operation, 202 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 Yarock music player app package. Now to confirm the same use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l yarock # 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 yarock 1.1.6-1~webupd8~xenial2 amd64 a Qt based music player
Now to open the application just type the command yarock on shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ yarock # Open the application
YAROCK MUSIC PLAYER APP
You can also open the Yarock best Linux music player graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN YAROCK BEST LINUX MUSIC PLAYER GRAPHICALLY
To uninstall the Yarock music player app use the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r yarock # Uninstall the application
(Reading database ... 247815 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing yarock (1.1.6-1~webupd8~xenial2) ...
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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