How to install Audacious 3.6.2 on Linux Mint 18.3

To install Audacious 3.6.2 on Linux Mint 18.3

Audacious is a free and open source audio player that used on the low level of resource , high audio quality and for a wide range of audio formats. It’ s a default audio player in Lubuntu and in Ubuntu studio operating system. Audacious is a very POSIX-compatible system such as Linux, with limited support for Microsoft Windows.

Installing Audacious 3.6.2

First, you need to make sure you update your system repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [11.5 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                          
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner amd64 Packages [3,132 B]              
Get:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial/partner i386 Packages [3,124 B]           
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
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Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [551 kB]                            
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [241 kB]                           
Get:25 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages [16.2 kB]                        
Get:26 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [15.3 kB]                         
Get:27 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [7,080 B]                        
Get:28 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [7,064 B]                         
Get:29 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [3,812 B]                        
Fetched 5,313 kB in 15s (335 kB/s)                                                                                
Reading package lists... Done

Once it is updated, you shall add the necessary repository by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp user # add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/apps
You are about to add the following PPA:
 Apps that are not available in Ubuntu universe repositories or the Ubuntu repositories only provide an old version

Maintained by http://ubuntuhandbook.org

Liferea News Reader:

        No update for Ubuntu 14.04 since Liferea now requires GTK > =3.14

Parole media player:

       No update for Ubuntu 16.04 since parole 0.9.2 requires GTK > = 3.20
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntuhandbook1/+archive/ubuntu/apps
Press Enter to continue or Ctrl+C to cancel

Executing: /tmp/tmp.eZtX8YaWxf/gpg.1.sh --keyserver
hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80
--recv-keys
852541CB
gpg: requesting key 852541CB from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: key 852541CB: public key " Launchpad PPA for Panda Jim"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)

And then, once again you need to update the system repository with the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                           
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial InRelease [17.5 kB]                             
Ign:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                                              
Hit:5 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                    
Hit:6 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                                                
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main Sources [6,956 B]
Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [8,264 B]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [8,260 B]
Get:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntuhandbook1/apps/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [5,684 B]
Hit:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Fetched 46.7 kB in 2s (19.4 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

linuxhelp user # apt-get install audacious
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  audacious-plugins audacious-plugins-data libaudcore3 libaudgui3 libaudtag2 libavcodec-ffmpeg56
  libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavutil-ffmpeg54 libbinio1v5 libbluray1 libbs2b0 libcddb2 libcrystalhd3 libcue1 libfaad2
  libfluidsynth1 libgme0 libguess1 libmms0 libmodplug1 libmp3lame0 libmpg123-0 libopenjpeg5 libschroedinger-1.0-0
  libsdl2-2.0-0 libshine3 libsidplayfp4 libsnappy1v5 libsndio6.1 libsoxr0 libssh-gcrypt-4 libswresample-ffmpeg1
  libtwolame0 libva1 libx264-148 libx265-79 libxvidcore4 libzvbi-common libzvbi0
Suggested packages:
  libbluray-bdj firmware-crystalhd sidplayfp sndiod
Recommended packages:
  va-driver-all | va-driver
The following NEW packages will be installed:
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Setting up libbs2b0:amd64 (3.1.0+dfsg-2.2) ...
Setting up libcddb2 (1.3.2-5fakesync1) ...
Setting up libcue1 (1.4.0-1) ...
Setting up libfluidsynth1:amd64 (1.1.6-3) ...
Setting up libmms0:amd64 (0.6.4-1) ...
Setting up libmpg123-0:amd64 (1.22.4-1) ...
Setting up libsndio6.1:amd64 (1.1.0-2) ...
Setting up libsdl2-2.0-0:amd64 (2.0.4+dfsg1-2ubuntu2) ...
Setting up libsidplayfp4:amd64 (1.8.3-1) ...
Setting up audacious-plugins:amd64 (3.6.2-2ubuntu1) ...
Setting up audacious (3.6.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

linuxhelp user # audacious