How to Install Strawberry on Ubuntu 20.04 | 22.04 LTS

In this guide, we will show you how to install Strawberry in Ubuntu systems.

Strawberry is a free audio player for Linux , macOS and Windows. Strawberry has now been ported to Qt 6 and is therefore available for the three major desktop operating systems. It is a music player and collection organizer focused on cataloging your music collection.

Install Strawberry

Follow the steps below to get started with Strawberry:

• Update your Ubuntu system packages with running the below command:

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

• Strawberry package is not available on Ubuntu base repository. So You can install it via APT PPA method by importing and installing the PPA as follows:

#Strawberry Stable PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonaski/strawberry -y

#Strawberry Unstable PPA
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonaski/strawberry-unstable -y

• Execute an APT update to reflect the newly imported PPA.

sudo apt update -y

• Now install the application

sudo apt install strawberry -y

NOTE: Also you can install Strawberry with Flatpak

Flatpak, formerly known as xdg-app, is a utility for software deployment and package management for Linux. It is advertised as offering a sandbox environment in which users can run application software in isolation from the rest of the system.

• So install the Flatpak manager with running the following command:

sudo apt install flatpak -y

• Enable Flatpak using the following command

sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

• Install Strawberry using the following flatpak command.

flatpak install flathub org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry -y

Access Strawberry

• Access Strawberry through the command line by running the command

strawberry

• Also you can search on the system search bar by typing Strawberry as follows

• Alternatively, Flatpak users will need to launch using the command below:

flatpak run org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry

• Strawberry will open as shown below

How to Remove (Uninstall) Strawberry

• Remove Strawberry with APT Remove Method:

sudo apt autoremove strawberry -y
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jonaski/strawberry -y
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:jonaski/strawberry-unstable -y

• Remove Strawberry with Flatpak Remove Method:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data org.strawberrymusicplayer.strawberry
flatpak remove --unused

Install Strawberry -Conclusion

That’s it

Thanks.