[Solved] Strawberry Music Player

[Member stevix]

Hi, I’m new here, so excuse me if I ask anything stupid. I was hoping to install Strawberry Music Player, but can’t find a way to do it. Yes, I have read the articles “How to install apps” and the one aimed at newbies, so have I missed something? I notice that when I go into Package Manager in MX I see a row of tabs, Popular Apps, Stable, Testing, etc. When I go into Package Manager in Antix there’s just the Popular Apps, and nothing else. Is there something I need to enable, or something like that? Or is it just not available?

Please bear in mind that although I’m not completely new to Linux, on a scale of 1 to 10 I would only put myself at 2, or perhaps 3 on a good day.

Thanks

[Moderator caprea]

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You could do a request for strawberry to anticapitalista to add it to the package installer.
It seems it is easily downloaded and installed from this side, though.
https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/#download
Choose the debian version and if you are on antiX21 the bullseye, on antiX19 the buster one
and download it.
Afterwards you can install it by opening the Downloads folder with rox-filer or zzzfm or spacefm or whatever filemanager you prefer, and open a terminal. In the terminal type
sudo apt install
then drag and drop with the mouse the strawberry_1.0.1-bullseye_amd64.deb to the terminal.
Press enter.

[Member madibi]

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marvelous!! I didnt notice before, about this possibility to drag and drop!!!

[Member stevix]

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caprea wrote:

Choose the debian version and if you are on antiX21 the bullseye, on antiX19 the buster one
and download it.
Afterwards you can install it by opening the Downloads folder with rox-filer or zzzfm or spacefm or whatever filemanager you prefer, and open a terminal. In the terminal type
sudo apt install
then drag and drop with the mouse the strawberry_1.0.1-bullseye_amd64.deb to the terminal.
Press enter.

Tried that but had some problems. First two attempts failed although my own fault, I think I mis-keyed something in the terminal, 3rd attempt started off ok. But I then got an error message saying there were some missing dependencies (didn’t make a note of what they were, sorry). Tried both Buster and Bullseye as a bit of a double check but got same error message on both.

So decided to do a bit more digging around and found an Appimage. Downloaded that and things look ok. Haven’t had chance yet to check it thoroughly but looking good so far. Then I found my next mistake, I’m running this from live USB and hadn’t set up persistence correctly, so the next time I booted it up everything had disappeared. Oh well, start again next weekend.

[Moderator caprea]

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Also on the live-usb you have to update your sources before installing something.
sudo apt update
Then the sources are current and the missing depencies available and the above should work.
However, an appimage is fine, too.

[Member stevix]

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caprea wrote:

Also on the live-usb you have to update your sources before installing something.
sudo apt update
Then the sources are current and the missing depencies available and the above should work.
However, an appimage is fine, too.

Success! Following on from my various errors last week I’ve started again and everything’s worked out fine this time. Went back to downloading from the Strawberry site, didn’t use Appimage in the end. Thank you for your assistance. I was going to add “solved” to the topic title, but for some daft reason couldn’t see how to do it.

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