How To Install supysonic 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 supysonic on Ubuntu.

What is `supysonic`

supysonic is:

supysonic is a Python implementation of the Subsonic server API. Current supported features are:

browsing (by folders or tags)
streaming of various audio file formats
transcoding
user or random playlists
cover arts (as image files in the same folder as music files)
starred tracks/albums and ratings
Last.FM scrobbling

The “Subsonic API” is a set of adhoc standards to browse, stream or download a music collection over HTTP.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install supysonic

Install supysonic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install supysonic

Install supysonic 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 supysonic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install supysonic

How To Uninstall supysonic on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove supysonic

Uninstall supysonic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove supysonic

Remove supysonic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge supysonic

Remove supysonic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supysonic

Dependencies

supysonic have the following dependencies:

References

supysonic website

Summary

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