Debian/Ubuntu — Mopidy 4.0.0a2 documentation

# Debian/Ubuntu

If you run a Debian based Linux distribution, like Ubuntu or Raspbian, the easiest way to install Mopidy is from the Mopidy APT archive. When installing from the APT archive, you will automatically get updates to Mopidy in the same way as you get updates to the rest of your system.

If you’re on a Raspberry Pi running Debian or Raspberry Pi OS, the following instructions will work for you as well. If you’re setting up a Raspberry Pi from scratch, we have a guide for installing Debian/Raspbian and Mopidy. See Raspberry Pi.

## Distribution and architecture support

The packages in the apt.mopidy.com archive are built for:

- Debian 12 (Bookworm), which also works for Ubuntu 23.10 and Raspberry Pi OS 2023-10-10 or newer.

The few packages that are compiled are available for multiple CPU architectures:

- amd64

- i386

- armhf, compatible with all Raspberry Pi models.

This is just what we currently support, not a promise to continue to support the same in the future. We will drop support for older distributions and architectures when supporting those stops us from moving forward with the project.

## Install from apt.mopidy.com

1. Add the archive’s GPG key:

       sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
       sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/keyrings/mopidy-archive-keyring.gpg \
         https://apt.mopidy.com/mopidy.gpg

2. Add the APT repo to your package sources:

       sudo wget -q -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mopidy.list https://apt.mopidy.com/bookworm.list

3. Install Mopidy and all dependencies:

       sudo apt update
       sudo apt install mopidy

4. Now, you’re ready to run Mopidy.

## Upgrading

When a new release of Mopidy is out, and you can’t wait for your system to figure it out for itself, run the following to upgrade right away:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt upgrade

## Installing extensions

If you want to use any Mopidy extensions, like Spotify support or Last.fm scrobbling, you need to install additional packages.

To list all the extensions available from apt.mopidy.com, you can run:

    apt search mopidy

To install one of the listed packages, e.g. `mopidy-mpd`, simply run:

    sudo apt install mopidy-mpd

If you cannot find the extension you want in the APT search result, you can install it from PyPI using `pip` instead. You need to make sure you have `pip`, the Python package installer installed:

    sudo apt install python3-pip

Even if Mopidy itself is installed from APT it will correctly detect and use extensions from PyPI installed globally on your system using:

    sudo python3 -m pip install ...

For a comprehensive index of available Mopidy extensions, including those not installable from APT, see the Mopidy extension registry.