How to Install Beets on OpenBSD

Beets is a command-line tool for managing your music collection. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the process of installing Beets on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, make sure that you have:

  • Access to a terminal on an OpenBSD machine with root or sudo access.
  • A running installation of OpenBSD.

Steps to Install Beets on OpenBSD

  1. Update your system's package repository:
sudo pkg_add -U
  1. Install the Python package manager pip:
sudo pkg_add py-pip
  1. Install the dependencies required by Beets:
sudo pkg_add gcc libffi libxml2 libxslt py-cffi py-gobject3 py-gst1 py-gst1-interface py-gtk3 py-idna py-libdiscid py-mutagen readline
  1. Install Beets using pip:
sudo pip install beets
  1. Verify that Beets has been installed by checking its version:
beet version

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Beets on OpenBSD. You can now start organizing and managing your music collection with Beets.