The Music Player Daemon - User's Manual Introduction Installation We recommend that you use the software installation routines of your distribution to install MPD. Most operating systems have a MPD package, which is very easy to install.
Installing on Debian/Ubuntu Install the package mpd: apt-get install mpd
Compiling from source Download the source tarball from the MPD home page and unpack it: tar xjf mpd-0.14.2.tar.bz cd mpd-0.14.2 Make sure that all the required libraries and build tools are installed. The INSTALL file has a list. Now configure the source tree: ./configure The --help argument shows a list of compile-time options. When everything is ready and configured, compile: make And install: make install
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