Install HipHop to Listen to Free Music in Ubuntu 14.04

You know HipHop? It is an application lets you listen instantly to more than 45 million songs. No ads and totally free!

HipHop works on Windows, Mac and Linux (64-bit only). This simple tutorial will show you how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64-bit. Should also works on other Ubuntu releases.

There will be a few Linux commands in the below steps. Don’t be scared, just copy and paste them one by one in a terminal window (open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T) and hit Enter to run.

1. Install required library via command:

sudo apt-get install libudev1 nodejs

Type in your user password when it asks. Just type in mind and hit enter because terminal displays nothing when you typing a password.

2. Create a symbolic link so that the app will find the library:

sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.so.1 /usr/lib/libudev.so.0

3. Download HipHop from:

HipHop on Github

So far the package is HipHop-0.4.6.tgz

4. In terminal, run command to decompress the package to /opt/ directory for global use.

cd /opt/ && sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/HipHop-*.tgz

After this command, run ls and you should see HipHop folder in the list.

5. Make the app executable:

cd /opt/HipHop/ && sudo chmod +x HipHop

6. You can now launch the app via:

/opt/HipHop/HipHop

If everything is OK, let’s go create a launcher for HipHop so that you can start it from Unity Dash or Launcher.

1. First download an icon for the app. Below command will download the logo at the top of this post.

cd ~/Downloads/ && wget https://ubuntuhandbook.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hiphop-icon.png

2. Move the icon into the system’s icons folder (/usr/share/icons):

sudo mv ~/Downloads/hiphop-icon.png /usr/share/icons/hiphop.png

3. Ubuntu handles app launchers via .desktop files under /usr/share/applications/. We have to create one manually via:

sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/hiphop.desktop

When the file opens, copy and paste below into it.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=hiphop
Exec=/opt/HipHop/HipHop
Hidden=false
NoDisplay=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
Comment=
Icon=hiphop
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Categories=GNOME;GTK;RasterGraphics;Viewer;Utility;Network;