How to install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04

Harmony is an open-source music player with a sleek interface, available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Harmony Music Player is packed with several features and some of them are listed as follows.

Features

&bull Update Electron to 1.4.10
&bull Disable auto refresh on start -> add an option to enable it
&bull Add choice for tray icon (black, white or normal)
&bull Add icons for tray menu buttons
&bull Larger min-width/min-height

INSTALLATION

Download a harmony application package using this following URL

root@linuxhelp1:~# wget https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.9.1/harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb
--2018-05-29 17:03:16--  https://github.com/vincelwt/harmony/releases/download/v0.9.1/harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 192.30.253.112, 192.30.253.113
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|192.30.253.112|:443... connected.
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 37730830 (36M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘ harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb’ 

harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb   100%[==============================> ]  35.98M   546KB/s    in 88s     

2018-05-29 17:04:47 (420 KB/s) - ‘ harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb’  saved [37730830/37730830]

Install a Gdebi package, which will we used to resolve their dependencies due to installing a Debian packages

root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get install gdebi -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done


The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:


  apache2-bin apache2-data apache2-utils libapr1 libaprutil1 libaprutil1-dbd-sqlite3
  libaprutil1-ldap
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update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Setting up libpango-perl (1.227-2build1) ...
Setting up gdebi (0.9.5.7+nmu2) ...
Setting up libgtk2-perl (2:1.24992-1build1) ...

Install a Harmony application using the gdebi command

root@linuxhelp1:~# gdebi harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
Requires the installation of the following packages: gconf-service gconf-service-backend gconf2 gconf2-common libappindicator1 libgconf-2-4 libindicator7
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Preparing to unpack harmony-0.9.1-x64.deb ...
Unpacking harmony (0.9.1) ...
Setting up harmony (0.9.1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...

Open an Ubuntu menu and type Harmony on the menu

with this, the method to install Harmony on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.