Here you will find AppImages for Cantata. Please let me know if you have any problems with running Cantata using the AppImages offered on this site: thomas.leitz@web.de.
Cantata is a client for mpd (music player daemon). mpd is not included in the AppImage for Cantata. If you want to run mpd locally on your system, install it using your package manager.
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Download the latest AppImage for Cantata
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Make the AppImage executable, e.g. in the terminal run
chmod a+x Cantata-x.y.z.AppImage
The AppImage for Cantata is created inside a fresh installation of CentOS 6.7. In order to build the AppImage follow these steps
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Install CentOS 6.7 either on a PC or inside VirtualBox or any other virtualization program. Using 'testappimage' of AppImageKit also works, but there are issues with dbus.
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Start the Terminal and run
git clone https://github.com/unruhschuh/Cantata.AppImage -
Change directory with
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Start compilation and packaging process with
./recipe.sh. This createsCantata.AppImageinside the current directory.
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Cantata is built with the option
-DENABLE_LIBVLC=OFF, so HTTP stream playback may not work under Linux (see CDrummond/cantata#493).