How To Install mpdcron 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 mpdcron on Ubuntu.

What is mpdcron

mpdcron is:

mpdcron is a daemon that watches a Music Player Daemon instance for idle states and execs commands triggered by specific states.

• Uses mpd’s idle mode.
• Calls hooks depending on the event.
• Sets special environment variables to pass data to the hooks.
• Optional support for modules via GModule.
• Included modules:
  • notification
    • uses notify-send to send notifications.
    • can detect repeated songs.
  • scrobbler
    • uses curl to submit songs to Last.fm or Libre.fm
  • stats
    • module saves song data to a sqlite database
    • supports loving, killing, rating and tagging songs, artists, albums and genres.
    • tracks play count of songs, artist, albums and genres.
    • implements a simple server protocol for remote clients to receive data.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mpdcron

Install mpdcron Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mpdcron

Install mpdcron 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 mpdcron using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mpdcron

How To Uninstall mpdcron on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove mpdcron

Uninstall mpdcron And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mpdcron

Remove mpdcron Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mpdcron

Remove mpdcron configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mpdcron

Dependencies

mpdcron have the following dependencies:

• libnotify-bin
• ruby
• ruby-nokogiri
• libc6
• libcurl3-gnutls
• libdaemon0
• libglib2.0-0
• libmpdclient2
• libsqlite3-0

References

• mpdcron website

Summary

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