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How to install Songbird on the Acer Aspire One

August 2nd, 2009 John 26 comments

songbird-logoSongbird is an Itunes replacement for Linux that supports Itunes Music Libraries and music files.
It’s written by the same people that created Firefox so it comes with some pedigree, it’s Interface is similar to Itunes so it should be easy to pick up quickly.

This guide will look at how to install Songbird and future guides will look at Itunes and Ipod connectivity.

This site give me the information to get started.
To install Songbird.

  1. Open a Terminal Window from the advanced menu
  2. type wget http://download.songbirdnest.com/installer/linux/i686/Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-i686.tar.gz
  3. Press return
  4. sudo tar -zvxf Songbird_1.2.0-1146_linux-i686.tar.gz --directory /opt
  5. Press return.
  6. sudo chown user -R /opt/Songbird
  7. Press return.

To add Songbird onto the Advanced menu.From the advanced menu choose settings and then select Menu Editor.

menueditor

  1. Click on Add Entry.
  2. In the name box type SongBird.
  3. In the Command box type /opt/Songbird/songbird
  4. Click on Ok

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  1. Drag the SongBird Entry to where you want it to be.
  2. Click on Save

SongBird will now be in the Advanced Menu.

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