How To Install picard 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 picard on Ubuntu.

What is `picard`

picard is:

Picard is the next generation MusicBrainz tagging application.

This new tagging concept is album oriented, as opposed to track oriented like the others taggers are.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install picard

Install picard Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install picard

Install picard 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 picard using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install picard

How To Uninstall picard on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove picard

Uninstall picard And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove picard

Remove picard Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge picard

Remove picard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge picard

Dependencies

picard have the following dependencies:

References

picard website

Summary

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