How to install Tomahawk 0.8.4 Music Player on Linux Mint 18.3

To install Tomahawk 0.8.4 Music Player on Linux Mint 18.3

Tomahawk is a popular Music Player used in several Linux distribution. It comes with many interesting features and supports various music sources.It is also multi-platform and very easily installable application.

Tomahawk supports the following online music storage / sources:

• Spotify (Premium subscription)
• YouTube
• Amazon Music
• Google Play Music
• SoundCloud
• Last.fm
• Owncloud

Installing Tomahawk

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

linuxhelp user # apt-get update
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease             
Ign:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Get:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release [24.2 kB]
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Get:19 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe amd64 Packages [318 kB]                         
Get:20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe Translation-en [238 kB]                           
Get:21 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe i386 Packages [278 kB]                          
Get:22 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe Translation-en [119 kB]                         
Fetched 5,221 kB in 9s (575 kB/s)                                                                                 
Reading package lists... Done

You shall now install Tomahawk by triggering the following command.

linuxhelp user # apt-get install tomahawk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
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Setting up phonon-backend-gstreamer:amd64 (4:4.8.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Setting up phonon:amd64 (4:4.8.3-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libtomahawk:amd64 (0.8.4+dfsg1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up tomahawk (0.8.4+dfsg1-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...

Now that Tomahawk has been installed, you shall launch it from your Linux Mint search field.

Type Tomahawk in the search field.

When the application icon appears, you need to click on it to open.

It will ask your to install plug-ins

The Tomahawk application looks like the one in the following image.

With this, the method to install Tomahawk comes to an end.