How To Install glurp 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 glurp on Ubuntu.

What is `glurp`

glurp is:

glurp is a GTK+ frontend to the MPD music daemon. It features:

Playlist support with id3 tags display.
Password-protected connection to MPD.
Easy switching of MPD’s audio output device.
Easy operations with MPD’s database/playlists/streams.

There are three methods to install glurp 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 glurp Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install glurp

Install glurp Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install glurp

Install glurp 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 glurp using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install glurp

How To Uninstall glurp on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove glurp

Uninstall glurp And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove glurp

Remove glurp Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge glurp

Remove glurp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glurp

Dependencies

glurp have the following dependencies:

References

glurp website

Summary

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