How to install Banshee 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

To install Banshee 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04

Banshee is a cross-platform, open-source media player built upon Mono and GTK. It uses the GStreamer multimedia platform for encoding and decoding various media formats, including Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and FLAC. Banshee can play and import audio CDsand supports many portable media players. It also has Last.fm integration, album artwork fetching, smart playlists and podcast support. It is so simple to install Banshee and this article covers the method to install Banshee 2.6.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.

Installing Banshee

First, make sure you update the system by making use of the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                            
Ign:2 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia InRelease                                           
Hit:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                        
Hit:4 http://packages.linuxmint.com sylvia Release                                             
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages [737 kB]
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main i386 Packages [684 kB]                                                                          
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe amd64 Packages [593 kB]                                                                     
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/universe i386 Packages [549 kB]                                                                      
Fetched 2,767 kB in 16s (168 kB/s)                                                                                                                          
Reading package lists... Done

Now, you shall proceed with the installation of Banshee by triggering the following command.

linuxhelp ~ # apt-get install banshee   
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil libgkeyfile1.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgudev1.0-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil
  libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil
  libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil
  libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libtaglib2.1-cil
Suggested packages:
  gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly gstreamer1.0-ffmpeg banshee-dbg
Recommended packages:
  brasero banshee-extension-soundmenu
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  banshee libdbus-glib1.0-cil libdbus1.0-cil libgdata2.1-cil libgkeyfile1.0-cil libgtk-sharp-beans-cil libgudev1.0-cil libmono-data-tds4.0-cil
  libmono-system-data4.0-cil libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil
  libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil libmono-system-transactions4.0-cil libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil
  libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil libnotify0.4-cil libtaglib2.1-cil
0 upgraded, 19 newly installed, 0 to remove and 273 not upgraded.
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Setting up libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libmono-system-numerics4.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libmono-system-data4.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libmono-system-servicemodel-internals0.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libmono-system-runtime-serialization4.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libmono-system-xml-linq4.0-cil (4.2.1.102+dfsg2-7ubuntu4) ...
Setting up libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil (6.0.8+dfsg-1) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libnewtonsoft-json5.0-cil into Mono
Setting up libgdata2.1-cil (2.2.0.0-2build1) ...
* Installing 11 assemblies from libgdata2.1-cil into Mono
Setting up libgkeyfile1.0-cil (0.1-5) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libgkeyfile1.0-cil into Mono
Setting up libgtk-sharp-beans-cil (2.14.1-4) ...
Setting up libgudev1.0-cil (0.1-4build1) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libgudev1.0-cil into Mono
Setting up libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil (0.9.0-6) ...
* Installing 5 assemblies from libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil into Mono
Setting up libnotify0.4-cil (0.4.0~r3032-7build1) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libnotify0.4-cil into Mono
Setting up libtaglib2.1-cil (2.1.0.0-3build1) ...
* Installing 1 assembly from libtaglib2.1-cil into Mono
Setting up banshee (2.6.3+sarah) ...

Now that Banshee is installed, you shall open that application from your Ubuntu search field.

Type Banshee on the search field.

When the application appears, click on the link to open.

Now, the Banshee application appears on your screen.

If you want to know more about Banshee, you can check its version information.

linuxhelp ~ # dpkg &ndash l banshee

With this, the tutorial on installation of Banshee-2.6.2 on Ubuntu-16.04 comes to an end.