How To Install libmpdclient2 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 libmpdclient2 on Ubuntu.
What is libmpdclient2
libmpdclient2 is:
libmpdclient provides an API for interfacing the Music Player Daemon (MPD). It offers a low-level asynchronous API which knowns the MPD protocol syntax as well as a higher level synchronous API implementing the MPD commands and parsing all responses.
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libmpdclient2 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 libmpdclient2 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpdclient2 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmpdclient2
Install libmpdclient2 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmpdclient2 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmpdclient2
Install libmpdclient2 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 libmpdclient2 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmpdclient2
How To Uninstall libmpdclient2 on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the libmpdclient2 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmpdclient2
Uninstall libmpdclient2 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmpdclient2 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmpdclient2
Remove libmpdclient2 Configurations and Data
To remove libmpdclient2 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmpdclient2
Remove libmpdclient2 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmpdclient2 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmpdclient2
Dependencies
libmpdclient2 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmpdclient2 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.