To install additional software required to support various types of multimedia:
The GUI way
- Applications->Add/Remove Applications.
- Type
xine into the search box at the top.
- Find “Xine extra plugins” in the list and tick it.
- Find and select “Gstreamer extra codec” and “Sun Java 5.0 Plugin”
- Press OK.
The Command Line way
This is much quicker as long as you know the names of the packages you want to install.
- Install codecs etc:
sudo apt-get install sox vorbis-tools flac lame mpg321 faad faac
- Install the Xine-backend version of Totem:
sudo apt-get install totem-xine
Flash v9
The version of Flash in Ubuntu 6.10 is v7 which is quite old. Lots of websites now require version 9, which is easy to install in Firefox:
- Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
- Click on the green jigsaw piece icon to install the current version of Flash.
SlimServer doesn’t like the Music Folder path in the form smb://computer/share – presumably it can’t use smbclient. I therefore need to mount this share in the filesystem.
Parts of this are taken from here and here.
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Ubuntu is based on Debian, so I followed the instructions on the Slim Devices website here and it worked fine. It basically involves adding the Slim Devices repository to Synaptic Package Manager (Settings/Repository->Third Party) and then installing using apt-get.
The next thing to do is mount the network share so it can be accessed by SlimServer.
There’s a very useful Getting Started document over at UbuntuGuide which describes lots of basic configuration tasks.
In the Ubuntu 6.10 official documentation there seem to be references to a utility in System->Administration->Disks but apparently the Disks utility was removed in v6.10. It’s not difficult to edit the /etc/fstab file as on any other Linux. There are instructions in the Ubuntu documentation and also here
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I’ve just installed Ubuntu 6.10 and I’m going to be recording my experiences here, mostly so I can refer back to it later when I can’t remember how I did things…
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