Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, 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 0.6.0.
Among others, DeadBeef 0.6.0 comes with a new system customizable keyboard shortcuts, improved m3u playlists support, a new plugin manager and GTK+3 improvements for a better compatibility with Unity, Gnome Shell and Cinnamon.
In this article I will show you how to install DeadBeeF 0.6.0 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, KWheezy and Crunchbang.
It is not available yet via any repository, but we can download the deb files from sourceforge and install them by hand. Follow the instructions for your architecture exactly, in order to get a successful installation:
How to install DeadBeeF 0.6.0 on 32 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, KWheezy and Crunchbang systems:
$ wget -c http://surfnet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/deadbeef/debian/0.6.0/deadbeef-static_0.6.0-2_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i deadbeef-static_0.6.0-2_i386.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f
How to install DeadBeeF 0.6.0 on 64 bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pear OS, Elementary OS, Debian, KWheezy and Crunchbang systems:
$ wget -c http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/project/deadbeef/debian/0.6.0/deadbeef-static_0.6.0-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i deadbeef-static_0.6.0-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo apt-get install -f