How to install Qmmp on Ubuntu 17.04
How to install Qmmp on Ubuntu 17.04
The Qmmp is a popular open-source, cross-platform multimedia player, similar to Winamp and written in Qt. It is a simple, intitutive user interface and supports Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and MP3 music formats and also supports embedded ID3v2 album images. This tutorial covers the installation procedure of Qmmp on Ubuntu.
Installation procedure
To begin with the installation procedure, add the repository to the system by executing the following command.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
Releases of Qt-based multimedia player (Qmmp)
Installation:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:forkotov02/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Qt4-based version (for Ubuntu 16.04 or higher):
sudo apt-get install qmmp-qt4 qmmp-plugin-pack-qt4
More info: https://launchpad.net/~forkotov02/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
gpg: keybox ' /tmp/tmp4cuxy_wt/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: /tmp/tmp4cuxy_wt/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 0F2BC52FC4FBC3E6: public key " Launchpad PPA for Ilya Kotov" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg: imported: 1
OK
Next run the apt-get update command to update the local repository index.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/forkotov02/ppa/ubuntu zesty InRelease [15.4 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]
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Get:22 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe amd64 Packages [9,204 B]
Get:23 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe Translation-en [7,188 B]
Get:24 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2,184 B]
Fetched 453 kB in 6s (75.3 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
The target system is updated with the required repositories. Now install the Qmmp package by executing the following command.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# apt-get install qmmp qmmp-plugin-pack
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up libavformat57:amd64 (7:3.2.4-1build2) ...
Setting up qmmp (1.1.8-1ubuntu1~zesty0) ...
Setting up qmmp-plugin-pack (1.1.3-1ubuntu1~zesty0) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-9ubuntu2) ...
To open the Qmmp application, execute the following command and the application will run.
root@linuxhelp1:/home/user1# qmmp
Now the application can be used to listen the user' s favourite music playlist.
Wasn' t that an easy installation procedure? The Qmmp is inspired by Winamp which is the software' s default user interface.
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