{"id":7480,"date":"2018-02-05T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7480"},"modified":"2025-06-06T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T09:05:00","slug":"install-foobar2000-snap-ubuntu-16-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/install-foobar2000-snap-ubuntu-16-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Foobar2000 via Snap in Ubuntu 24.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Foobar2000, the popular music player for Windows platform, now can be easily installed in Ubuntu via snap, the universal Linux app packaging format.<\/p>\n

This is a Wine<\/a> based snap package maintained by an open-source project<\/a>. With it, you can simply install it either via App Center (or Ubuntu Software) or by running a single command.<\/p>\n

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1.<\/b> For old Ubuntu 16.04, you need to first open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install the snapd<\/code> daemon package:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install snapd snapd-xdg-open<\/pre>\n
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2.<\/b> For Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 24.04, and higher, Snap is pre-installed. You may either search & install Foobar2000 from Ubuntu Software or App Center:<\/p>\n
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Or, run the command below instead to install from terminal window:<\/p>\n
snap install foobar2000 --classic<\/pre>\n
--classic<\/code> flag is required to be able to access files outside the installation directory.<\/i><\/p>\n
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3. (no longer requires in current Ubuntu releases)<\/b> To make it work, you still need to run following 3 commands one by one:<\/p>\n
sudo snap connect foobar2000:hardware-observe core:hardware-observe\r\n\r\nsudo snap connect foobar2000:process-control core:process-control\r\n\r\nsudo snap connect foobar2000:cups-control core:cups-control<\/pre>\n
Finally launch the music player from application launcher (may need re-login) and enjoy, though the UI is kinda age-old.<\/p>\n
Uninstall:<\/h4>\n
To remove foobar2000 snap package, either use Ubuntu Software or run command in terminal:<\/p>\n
snap remove --purge foobar2000<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Foobar2000, the popular music player for Windows platform, now can be easily installed in Ubuntu via snap, the universal Linux app packaging format. This is a Wine based snap package maintained by an open-source project. With it, you can simply install it either via App Center (or Ubuntu Software) or by running a single command. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[948,1253],"class_list":["post-7480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-foobar2000","tag-music-player"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}