Installing Entertainer Media Center on Ubuntu
Entertainer is a relatively new media center for Gnome and XFCE desktops, currently at version 0.1 as of this writing. This tutorial will focus on the installation of Entertainer on Ubuntu with as little command line use as possible. If you’re comfortable with the command line, this tutorial should suffice. We’ll assume you’ve downloaded the tar.gz from the Entertainer website.
Extract Entertainer
We’ve saved the .tar.gz to /home/jason.
Right click the .tar.gz and hit Extract Here. You should have a new folder called entertainer-0.1.
Install Dependencies
We’ll need to install some files before we’re able to run Entertainer. Copy and paste the following into the Terminal (no changes needed):
sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-gtk2 python-gst0.10 python-clutter \ python-pysqlite2 python-cddb python-glade2 python-cairo python-feedparser \ python-pyinotify python-eyed3 python-pyvorbis python-imaging python-imdbpy \ python-notify
Hit Enter, and enter your password. Wait for all the files to be downloaded and installed (when it’s finished you’ll be able to execute commands again). Close the Terminal.
Setup Entertainer
Head into your entertainer-0.1 directory, then head into the src folder.
Double click the entertainer-content-management.py file, and click Run.
Click an applicable tab. We chose Music. Click Add, and choose a folder where you keep music files. Do the same with Videos, Images, and you can configure RSS feeds and Weather if you wish. When you’re done, click Close.
Start Entertainer
Double click entertainer-backend.py, and choose Run. Now double click entertainer-frontend.py, and choose Run. If all went well, the program should start. Direct any questions to the comments section below.
I'm Jason, the main author of Third Error, and many of the topics I'll focus on concern Windows (and applicable software), web applications, web design, and a bit of *nix (Ubuntu mainly). My computer runs Windows XP, with virtualized Ubuntu and OS X handy.