[Novalug] joost, iTunes, etc, FORGET THEM! Miro

[Ken Kauffman]

Miro is simply crashing on me due to a large library.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org
[mailto:novalug-bounces at calypso.tux.org] On Behalf Of Pete Nuwayser
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 9:59 AM
To: Northern Virginia Linux User's Group
Subject: Re: [Novalug] joost, iTunes, etc, FORGET THEM! Miro

On Nov 14, 2007 9:16 AM, DonJr <djr1952 at hotpop.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 08:07 -0500, Matt Bidwell wrote:
> > Richard Mancusi wrote:
> > > On Nov 13, 2007 8:48 PM, Jay Hart <jhart at kevla.org> wrote:
> > >> What, no OpenSuse rpm.  Whats so cool about it!!!
> > >>
> > >> Jay
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> http://www.getmiro.com/features/
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org
> > >
> > > It's in Ubuntu 7.10 as version 0.9.8.1 and states "formerly Democracy
Player"
> > > In Ubuntu 7.04 Miro doesn't exist but Democracy Player does (version
0.9.2.1)
> > >
> > > So, if you can't find it under Miro, check for Democracy Player.
> > >
> > > -rich
> >
> > In terms of the Debian based player, there was a slip up
> > from the developer so that miro-data is in the repository
> > but the actual miro package isn't. I don't know if Ubuntu
> > is still taking a large chunk of packages from Debian proper
> > at this point but that maybe the case of why it's not
> > in Ubuntu yet.
> >
> > Matt
>
> For Ubuntu to get the deb directly from the developer by apt-get go to
> this page and follow the instructions to update source.list for your
> version:
>  <http://www.getmiro.com/download/ubuntu.php>
>
> For "Gusty" it would be:
>  sudo -i
>  # echo "deb
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu
gutsy/" \
>     > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ftp.osuosl.org
>  # apt-get update
>  # apt-get install miro
>  # exit

does this procedure install a newer version than 0.9.8.1?  0.9.8.1 is
available through the normal installation program in gutsy (search for
miro within "all open source applications").

pete



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