Installing Songbird 1.8.0 (Solved)

[kapil]

We all know that Songbird has stopped support for linux.yet there are contributer in songbird community who has contributed the builds for songbird. ref: http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develop...ributed_Builds

Its been more than a year i have taken plunge into kubuntu.yet i dont know what to do with .tar.gz files. how do i install them. i read few posts on KFN and there was one good thread: http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3113424.0
i dont want to screw up with my working system. so i have come to KFN for your guidance

Here is what i have done till now:
1. downloaded the Songbird source tarball file from the songbirdnest. i was confused which one to download, the source tarball or Generic Linux 64-bit. downloaded both files. but songbird.mk file is present only in source tarball
2. installed subversion subversion g++ g++-4.5 libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgtk2.0-dev as prerequisite
3. extracted source tarball to ~/sbird/
4. cd sbird
5. make -f songbird.mk
following is the output

svn: '/home/kapil/sbird' is not a working copy
svn: '/home/kapil/sbird' is not a working copy
Songbird Build System
cd /home/kapil/sbird && \
  autoconf && \
  rm -f -r /home/kapil/sbird/autom4te.cache/ 
svn up /home/kapil/sbird/dependencies/vendor/mozbrowser
Skipped '/home/kapil/sbird/dependencies/vendor/mozbrowser'
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no

svn up /home/kapil/sbird/dependencies/vendor/mozjshttpd
Skipped '/home/kapil/sbird/dependencies/vendor/mozjshttpd'
mkdir -p /home/kapil/sbird/compiled /home/kapil/sbird/compiled/dist
cd /home/kapil/sbird/compiled && \
  /home/kapil/sbird/configure 
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no

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checking for dbus-glib-1... Package dbus-glib-1 was not found in the pkg-config search path. 
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `dbus-glib-1.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable 
No package 'dbus-glib-1' found
configure: error: Library requirements (dbus-glib-1) not met; 
consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable 
if your libraries are in a nonstandard prefix so pkg-config can find them.
make: *** [/home/kapil/sbird/compiled/config.status] Error 1

no idea how to proceed...

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

typically the first command you would use when compiling a tarball from source would be

./config

or maybe

./configure

Followed by

make

and finally

make install

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

thanks jeremy1701
./configuration it is.
gives same error.pkg config path..

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

sudo apt-get install libdbus-glib-1-dev

Or search for libdub-glib-1 in your repo and install it from there.

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

silly me..
i could have read the error properly.
@jeremy1701: thanks.i installed libdbus-glib-1-dev
and make command went ahead.
but again stuck at "hal"

checking for hal... Package hal was not found in the pkg-config search path.

i tried to install hal, but it was already in its newest version.
stuck.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

Search your repo for a hal-dev package and install that, most likely something like libhal-dev.

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

thanks..

Now, as per the wiki, i have to download the dependencies. ref:https://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develo...e_Dependencies
unfortunately 64bit is not working..
lets see if 32bit thing works.


P.S. I am definitely going to make HowTo of this songbird installation

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

Hi Kapil,
There are directions on the link provided in the error for how to d/l the dependencies your missing.

http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Develop...ckout_the_Code

%~/sbird/: cd trunk/dependencies
%~/sbird/trunk/dependencies: svn co [url]http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/vendor-binaries/trunk/linux-i686[/url]

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

hmm..going through it.
there is one variation though.
for me the dependencies folder is in "sbird" folder where i extracted the complete package.

now i got what they were trying to tell. first to get the source file into sbird folder.
extract it to trunk folder.

why don't they write it so that even normal user can do things easily in linux..

lets see what happence now...

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

today i again followed all the steps mentioned on songbirdnest to build and use songbird.
not working.
formed exact folder structure. extracted the tar.bz file into trunk folder under sbird folder.
downloaded vendor dependencies using svn as suggested.
that folder has make.in file along with other folders.

again used make file to build songbird. no success.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

hi kapil, did run ./configure after you d/l'ed the dependencies?

[kyonides]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

Since you're using *buntu, you could pay a visit to GetDeb.net and you'll find a deb package (v 1.8.0) for *buntu.

[jeremy1701]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

Since you're using *buntu, you could pay a visit to GetDeb.net and you'll find a deb package (v 1.8.0) for *buntu.

Wow! This is a great site!! Ty for the linkage.

[kapil]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0

well well well.. it turns out the problem was with 64bit OS.
the songbird dependencies folder has packages only for 32bit and not for 64bit. that's why the process was giving errors.

@kyonides: i went to that site.. in fact that was the first site i went after i found that the packages are not available through official ppa. but when i clicked on install..it used to update the repository.. and thats it. it could not install the songbird.

Then, i wiped out my secondary OS the linuxmint 64bit and installed mint 32 bit..and voila!!! turns out the deb package installed from GetDeb.net
it was as easy as 1-2-3

Long story short. i am marking this thread as solved.
Songbird can be installed on 32-bit OS by downloading from GetDeb. Those (like me) using 64 bit can happily use amarok/xbmc etc.

[tammysu]

Re: Installing Songbird 1.8.0 (Solved)

I can't get GetDeb.net to work, what now?