How To Install Cantata on Debian 8.3
To install Cantata on Debian 8.3
Cantata is a feature rich client of Music Player Daemon and it works based as KDE application, or Qt4 dependencies. Basically, it is a background application which is used for playing music. Cantata is very simple to install, and this article covers the installation of Cantata on Debian 8.3
Features
- Show correct separators for windows builds.
- Supply TagLib 1.9.1 for windows builds.
- Convert filename to UTF16 before passing to TagLib for windows builds.
- When emiting signal to say cover is loaded, need to adjust size by pixel ratio.
- Fix updating of toolbar coverwidget if cover is downloaded after song has started.
- Fix compilation when online services disabled.
- Fix dynamic playlists with no include rules.
- Re-add option to show artist images in tree and list views.
Installing Cantata
Before installing Cantata, make sure you add its repositories to your apt sources list. Use the following command to open the file.
root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list
Once the file is opened, add the following lines to the end of the file.
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main
Save and exit the file once the lines are added.
Once it is done, update the apt sources-list as follows.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 3min 46s (104 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Now is the time to install the Cantata package by invoking the following command.
root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install cantata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
docbook-xsl fonts-freefont-ttf kate-data katepart kde-runtime kde-runtime-data
kde-style-oxygen kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-plugins kdoctools libattica0.4
libbasicusageenvironment0 libcddb2 libcrystalhd3 libdbusmenu-qt2 libdlrestrictions1
libdvbpsi9 libebml4 libebur128-1 libfam0 libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libgpgme++2
libgroupsock1 libiodbc2 libiso9660-8 libkactivities-bin libkactivities-models1
libkactivities6 libkatepartinterfaces4 libkcmutils4 libkde3support4 libkdeclarative5
libkdecore5 libkdesu5 libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkemoticons4 libkfile4
libkhtml5 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff3-4
libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libktexteditor4
libkxmlrpcclient4 liblivemedia23 libmatroska6 libmysqlclient18 libnepomuk4
libnepomukcore4 libnepomukquery4a libnepomukutils4 libntrack-qt4-1 libntrack0
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.8.20-0+deb8u1) ...
Cantata has been installed, use your activities search bar to find and launch Cantata.
Wasn' t it so simple to install Cantata? It is also simple and cool to use Cantata. Cantata has the most important features of a modern music player.
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