Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Cantata is a music player, working with KDE, or as a Qt4 application. Cantata has the most important features of a modern music player. The latest version available is Cantata 1.1.0. For a list of features and the changelog, see this link.
In this article I will show you how to install Cantata 1.1.0 on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Linux Mint 16 Petra and Linux Mint 15 Olivia.
Cantata 1.1.0 is available in the default repositories of Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander and Linux Mint 16 Petra, so installing it is easy. All you have to do is update the local repository index and install the cantata package:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install cantata
To install Cantata 1.1.0 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail and Linux Mint 15 Olivia, we have to add the Kubuntu Backports repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
Update the local repository index:
$ sudo apt-get update
Install Cantata 1.1.0:
$ sudo apt-get install cantata