hmmmmm???? i'm following the install directions...??

[pstevenson83]

when following the install directions, i created a src folder and have a downloaded tar.gz. my src is locked and won't let me drag the tar.gz into it! i'm the root user?

I ended up just taking putting it in my home folder instead (i'm installing sonbird btw). From there I was able to run the tar -zxvf just fine. I ran ls and songbird.tar.gz was there along with my desktop, documents and everything else in the home folder. The songbird.tar.gz was red. I assumed this was good. I typed cd songbird.tar.gz and it tells me this is not a directory. I tried to skip and got to the make and it says nothing to be done to this file. i figured that was good so i did make install and it says no rule to make target install. stop... can someone please help me?

[techieMoe]

Okay, back up. What install directions are you referring to? You should be able to get Songbird off the Ubuntu repositories by using Add/Remove Programs or Synaptic Package Manager.

[pstevenson83]

i went to the ubuntu software center looked for songbird. not there. then I did apt-get install songbird. - couldn't find pakcage/, ---------, the tar.gz is almost installed.. but i ran into those problems.

i was referring to the installing software directions that you wrote. mr moe

[reed9]

Despite appearances, the songbird downloaded prominently displayed on their website is actually a binary package, not source.

You can run songbird straight from the executable out of the unzipped package, but you probably want it installed properly.

There are a couple of places to download a deb file for ubuntu.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Songbird

[reed9]

Oh and there may be some conflict between the gstreamer libraries that songbird ships with and the ubuntu versions.

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