Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Tomahawk is an unique music player that unifies music sources like Spotify, SoundCloud, Rdio, Youtube and others to make listening to music easier. Like iTunes, it can play the music from your local computer. But with some plugins, it is capable of searching for your favorite music, on the music sites/sources I have just mentioned two lines up.
The latest version available is Tomahawk 0.8.2, which has been released a while ago, coming with a huge list of changes:
- Show error message if saving tags failed.
- Fixed painting issue on search page.
- Disabled sorting for stations.
- Fixed drag & drop behavior in combination with certain resolvers.
- Fixed infinite scanning recursion.
- Prevented adding dupes to the collection when scanning.
- When playing an artist or album, don’t give up when the first track in list isn’t playable.
- Fixed importing M3U playlists.
- Sort album grids by artist name.
- Fixed painting issue on ‘More Albums’ grid.
- Fixed crash when editing/saving track tags.
While Tomahawk 0.8.2 has been released for a while, the tomahawk PPA has received packages for Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet.
In this article I will show you how to install Tomahawk 0.8.2 on Ubuntu 15.04 Vivid Vervet, Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04, Elementary OS 0.3 Freya, Elementary OS 0.2 Luna, Deepin 2014, Peppermint Five, LXLE 14.04, Linux Lite 2 and other Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 derivative systems.
Because it is available via PPA, installing Tomahawk 0.8.2 on Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and derivative systems 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