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 Raspbian, 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 11 (Bullseye), which also works for Raspbian Bullseye and Ubuntu 22.04 and 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

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

Add the APT repo to your package sources:

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

Install Mopidy and all dependencies:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install mopidy

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.