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kellyvotrenom
Asked: 2018-03-19 19:14:11 +0800 CST

Cannot launch Lollypop music player after installing from a deb package on Ubuntu 16.04

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I am trying to install Lollypop on a new Linux install 16.04 LTS. When I run 

sudo apt-get install lollypop

I get the error 'file not found'. (Yes, I added the repo)

I found a deb package online and installed that but Lollypop would run for a second then close.

Can't find any info on this problem after looking for a couple of hours. Any ideas?

The original info I used to install Lollypop I found here. I found the Xenial package here and installed using GDebi.

music-player

1 Answers

  1. Running lollypop from the CLI gives an error that GTK+ 3.20 is needed, the current installed version was 3.18.
    A way to upgrade 3.18 to 3.20 can be found here.
    Adding two repos by the following commands and updating should trigger a bunch of packages that needed to be updated. Note that you'll be installing untested packages and if you intend to switch between Unity and GNOME you should expect some compromise on the Unity half.

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3-staging
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

    Reboot and Lollypop should be running now.

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