How To Install butt on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install butt on Ubuntu.

What is `butt`

butt is:

butt (broadcast using this tool) is an easy to use, multi OS streaming tool. It supports ShoutCast and IceCast and runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows. The main purpose of butt is to stream live audio data from your computers Mic or Line input to an Shoutcast or Icecast server. Recording is also possible. It is NOT intended to be a server by itself or automatically stream a set of audio files.

Features:

It Works with SHOUTcast and Icecast.
It runs on all three major operating systems. Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.
It supports aac+, mp3, ogg/vorbis, ogg/opus and flac for streaming.
It supports aac+, mp3, ogg/vorbis, ogg/opus, flac and wav for recording.
It is able to connect to a server after starting up automatically.
It is able to start a recording after connecting to a server automatically.
Recording can be split after a user defined amount of time.
Current song can either be updated manually or automatically by reading a file.
Configuration files can be imported and exported.
Status display shows infos about the current state (click on it).
Automatically reconnects in case the connection was interrupted.
It has a VU Meter with peak hold.
It is able to attentuate and amplify the input volume.
It has a 5-band EQ.
It can read song names from different apps in MacOS and Linux.
Display colors can be changed as desired.

There are three methods to install butt on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install butt Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install butt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install butt

Install butt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install butt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install butt

Install butt Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install butt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install butt

How To Uninstall butt on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the butt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove butt

Uninstall butt And Its Dependencies

To uninstall butt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove butt

Remove butt Configurations and Data

To remove butt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge butt

Remove butt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove butt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge butt

Dependencies

butt have the following dependencies:

References

butt website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install butt package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.