Danami » Danami http://www.danami.com Managed Web Services Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:45:06 +0000 en hourly 1 How to install Exaile! on Ubuntu Edgy http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/12/26/how-to-install-exaile-on-ubuntu-edgy/ http://www.danami.com/blog/2007/12/26/how-to-install-exaile-on-ubuntu-edgy/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:08:12 +0000 admin http://www.danami.com/2007/12/26/third-post/ Exaile is a media player aiming to be similar to KDE’s AmaroK, but for GTK+. It incorporates many of the cool things from AmaroK (and other media players) like automatic fetching of album art, handling of large libraries, lyrics fetching, artist/album information via the wikipedia, last.fm support, optional iPod support (assuming you have python-gpod installed).

Enable The Universe and Non-Free Multiverse Repositories
Ensure the relevant repositories are enabled. Click System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> Settings -> Repositories and then click Add. Check the Community maintained (Universe)’ and Non-free (Multiverse) boxes. When you close the window, click Reload.

Grab the Ubuntu Edgy binary package

  1. wget http://www.exaile.org/files/exaile_0.2.8_i386.deb

Install Required Packages

  1. sudo apt-get install python2.4 python-gtk2 gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-plugins-good python-gst0.10 gstreamer0.10-alsa gstreamer0.10-esd python2.4-dbus python-pysqlite2 python-pyvorbis python-mutagen python-pysqlite2 python-elementtree

Install Optional Packages (enable mp3 support, ipod support, directory watching, clear button to filters , lyrics, better tray icon, etc.)

  1. sudo apt-get install python-gpod gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly python2.4-gamin sexy-python python-gnome2-extras

Install Exaile!

  1. dpkg -i exaile_0.2.8_i386.deb

Run Exaile!

  1. exaile
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