How to install CMUS 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
To install CMUS 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
CMus is an open source lightweight, fast and powerful terminal audio player for Unix/Linux like operating systems. CMus was designed to run on a text-only user interface, that reduces the resources required to run the application on older computers as well as systems where X window system isn' t available. The method to install CMUS 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 is covered in this tutorial.
Installation
Let' s start with updating the system repository.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
In order to install CMus enter the following command.
root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install cmus -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
Use ' sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up cmus (2.7.1+git20160225-1build3) ...
Setting up libswresample2:amd64 (7:3.4.2-2) ...
Setting up va-driver-all:amd64 (2.1.0-3) ...
Setting up vdpau-driver-all:amd64 (1.1.1-3ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libavcodec57:amd64 (7:3.4.2-2) ...
Setting up libchromaprint1:amd64 (1.4.3-1) ...
Setting up libavformat57:amd64 (7:3.4.2-2) ...
Setting up cmus-plugin-ffmpeg (2.7.1+git20160225-1build3) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
After installing you can run the following command on the terminal to launch CMUS.
root@linuxhelp1:~# cmus
You can verify the version from the top menu.
Here is the list of options we can use in CMUS application.
The ‘ up‘ and ‘ down‘ keys are used to choose a track, that you like to play and press ‘ Enter‘ . Some of the CMus keys to control Play are: Press *c* to pause/unpause Press right/left to seek by 10 seconds Press *< */*> * seek by one minute Press " r" to repeat the track Press " s" to random order to play all tracks. Press *1* to open a Artist/Album Press *2* to open a Library Press *3* to open a Playlist Press *4* to open a Play Queue Press *5* to browse the file Press *6* to open a Library filters Press *7* to open a setting
With this, the method to install CMUS 2.7.0 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.
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