How to install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04
To install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04
Harmony is an open-source music player with a sleek interface, available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Harmony Music Player is packed with several features and some of them are listed as follows.
Features
&bull Update Electron to 1.4.10
&bull Disable auto refresh on start -> add an option to enable it
&bull Add choice for tray icon (black, white or normal)
&bull Add icons for tray menu buttons
&bull Larger min-width/min-height
INSTALLATION
Download a harmony application package using this following URL
root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.9.1/harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb
--2018-05-29 17:03:16-- https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.9.1/harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 37730830 (36M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb’
harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb 100%[==============================> ] 35.98M 546KB/s in 88s
2018-05-29 17:04:47 (420 KB/s) - ‘ harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb’ saved [37730830/37730830]
Install a Gdebi package, which will we used to resolve their dependencies due to installing a Debian packages
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
libaprutil1-ldap
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update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...
Install a Harmony application using the gdebi command
root@linuxhelp1:~# gdebi harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common libappindicator1 libgconf-2-4 libindicator7
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Preparing to unpack harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb ...
Unpacking harmony (0.9.1) ...
Setting up harmony (0.9.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Open an Ubuntu menu and type Harmony on the menu
with this, the method to install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
However, if you want to make a full reset (as if it's the first time you use Harmony) you should delete the folder Harmony/ located in:
%APPDATA% on Windows
~/.config/ on Linux
~/Library/Application Support/ on MacOS