Hello Linux Geeksters. Deadbeef is an audio player written in C and C++, running on Linux. It supports a lot of formats, like: mp3, ogg, flac/oga, ape, wav, wv/iso.wv, aac/m4a, alac, mpc/mpp/mp+, tta, wma, shn, sid, nsf, mod, s3m, vtx, vgm/vgz, psf, midi, audio cds, all formats supported by ffmpeg, dumb, gme, libsndfile, adplug, and more! The latest version available is DeadBeef 0.5.6.
In this article I will show you how to install DeadBeeF 0.5.6 on Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 15 Olivia, Linux Mint 14 Nadia, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Debian Sid and Debian Wheezy.
Because it is available via PPA, so installing DeadBeef 0.5.6 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Elementary OS, is easy, all you have to do is:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:starws-box/deadbeef-player
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install deadbeef
Because DeadBeef 0.5.6 is available via the default repositories of Debian Sid and Debian Wheezy, installing it is easy, just do:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install deadbeef
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