Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Tomahawk is an unique music player that unifies music services like Spotify, SoundCloud, Rdio, Youtube and others to make listening to music easier. Also, like any other music player, it has support for playing music from the local computer.
The latest version available is Tomahawk 0.7, which has been released a while ago. Among others, the Spotify protocol handling has been improved, a new “Append to Playlist” item has been added to the context menu, the playback loop cause by duplicate tracks has been removed, the grid issues with GTK-styles have been fixed, the charts are now loaded on-demand only, the connection support via Twitter has been removed, the peer handling has been improved and some bug-fixes have been implemented.
In this article I will show you how to install Tomahawk 0.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Pinguy OS 12.04, LXLE 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Linux Lite 2.0, Peppermint Five, Fedora 20, Fedora 19, OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3 systems.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
For Ubuntu and derivative systems, Tomahawk 0.7 is available via PPA, so installing it is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to your system, update the local repository index and install the tomahawk package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomahawk/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install tomahawk
Optional, to remove tomahawk, do:
$ sudo apt-get remove tomahawk
Tomahawk 0.7 is available via the default repositories of Fedora 20 and Fedora 19, so to install it, you have to update the local repository index and install the tomahawk package. Like this:
$ sudo yum update
$ sudo yum install tomahawk
Optional, to remove tomahawk, do:
$ sudo yum remove tomahawk
How to install Tomahawk 0.7 on OpenSUSE 13.1:
$ zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Extra/openSUSE_13.1/KDE:Extra.repo
$ zypper refresh
$ zypper install tomahawk
Optional, to remove tomahawk, do:
$ zypper remove tomahawk
How to install Tomahawk 0.7 on OpenSUSE 12.3:
$ zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:Extra/openSUSE_12.3/KDE:Extra.repo
$ zypper refresh
$ zypper install tomahawk
Optional, to remove tomahawk, do:
$ zypper remove tomahawk