Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Lollypop is an open-source, audio player developed in GTK+3, created as a Rhythmbox alternative. Among others, it has support the playback of the most popular audio formats, including mp3, mp4, ogg and flac, allows the users to visualize the songs via album, artist or genre, can play the files in order or shuffle (random).
It has two UIs, a while one and and a dark one, making the player fit with many designs and interfaces.
The latest version available is Lollypop 0.8.19, which has been released a while ago.
In this article I will show you how to install Lollypop 0.8.19 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2, OpenSUSE 13.2, Fedora 21 and Arch Linux.
Because it is available via repository, installing Lollypop 0.8.19 on Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Fedora, Arch Linux and derivative systems is easy. All you have to do is add the repository to your system, update the local repository index and install the lollypop package.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Lollypop 0.8.19 on Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and derivative systems:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lollypop
For Unity only, disable the overlay scrollbars:
$ gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal
Optional, to remove lollypop, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove lollypop
How to install Lollypop 0.8.19 on OpenSUSE 13.2 and derivative systems:
$ sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/gnumdk31/openSUSE_13.2/home:gnumdk31.repo -O /etc/zypp/repos.d/home:gnumdk31.repo
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install lollypop
Optional, to remove lollypop, do:
$ sudo zypper remove lollypop
How to install Lollypop 0.8.19 on Fedora 20 and derivative systems:
$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-copr
$ sudo yum copr enable gnumdk/lollypop
$ sudo yum install lollypop
Optional, to remove lollypop, do:
$ sudo yum remove lollypop
How to install Lollypop 0.8.19 on Arch Linux and derivative systems:
$ sudo yaourt lollypop
Optional, to remove lollypop, do:
$ sudo yaourt -Rsn lollypop