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Wilsonzaizai
Asked: 2010-10-24 06:46:47 +0800 CST

Installing CoverGloobus

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Is there any easier way to install Covergloobus 1.6 in Ubuntu 10.10 ? PPA doesnt work , tried to compile it but failed , are there any other ways??

10.10 compiling ppa covergloobus

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  1. Best Answer

    The Lucid packages from the PPA work in Maverick, but you have to download them manually.

    Here are the direct download links from the PPA:

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  2. CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name – an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop

    PPA

    Enter a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and use:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install covergloobus

    Tar

    Download from the website, extract, enter the directory and run:

    ./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install
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  3. As said before, there is no maverick ppa. But you can use the lucid ppa, if you prefer to install by ppa rather than .deb, and also to be updated: in a terminal run

    sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

    Then copy and paste the following at the end of the file:

    deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gloobus-dev/covergloobus/ubuntu lucid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gloobus-dev/covergloobus/ubuntu lucid main

    Finally, update sources and install:

    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install covergloobus
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  4. Addendum to @hhlp: CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name ...

    TAR

    Better use checkinstall, this resutls in a .deb package. If you like to revert to a previous version, be sure to first uninstall the old version (sudo apt-get remove covergloobus):

    sudo apt-get install checkinstall
./autogen.sh && checkinstall make install
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