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MetalMusicAddict
February 24th, 2007, 07:30 PM
WARNING! This is only for people who want to stay on the bleeding edge of Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/)! WARNING!

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I'm a Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/) fanboy at the moment. I use BZR and no real problems. This HOW-TO assumes you have all the proper things installed to run Exaile normally. This works for me on Edgy, Feisty and Gutsy. If you want to stay on the edge like I do, here you go.

1. We need some software. From a terminal:
sudo apt-get install bzr

2. Now a script. From a terminal:
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/exaile-bzr
Now paste in this text:
#!/bin/bash
cd Exaile-BZR && bzr pull
~/Exaile-BZR/exaile
Now we make it executable:
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/exaile-bzr

3. Now lets make a launcher. From a terminal:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/exaile-bzr.desktop
Now paste in this text:
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Exaile!-BZR
GenericName=Music Player
Comment=Listen to, browse, or edit your audio collection
Exec=exaile-bzr
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/atm/Exaile-BZR/images/icon.png
Categories=Application;AudioVideo;AudioPlayer;GTK
MimeType=audio/x-musepack;application/x-musepack;audio/musepack;application/musepack;application/x-ape;audio/ape;audio/x-ape;audio/x-musepack;application/x-musepack;audio/musepack;application/musepack;application/x-ape;audio/ape;audio/x-ape;audio/x-mp3;application/x-id3;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-mpeg-3;audio/mpeg3;audip/mp3;audio/x-mp3;application/x-id3;audio/mpeg;audio/x-mpeg;audio/x-mpeg-3;audio/mpeg3;audip/mp3;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-m4a;audio/mpc;audio/x-mpc;audio/mp;audio/x-mp;audio/mpc;audio/x-mpc;audio/mp;audio/x-mp;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;audio/vorbis;audio/x-vorbis;audio/ogg;audio/x-ogg;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;audio/vorbis;audio/x-vorbis;audio/ogg;audio/x-ogg;audio/x-flac;application/x-flac;audio/flac;audio/x-flac;application/x-flac;audio/flac;

4. In a Terminal:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~exaile-devel/exaile/main Exaile-BZR

5. Find the entry in your Sound&Video section of the menu and launch it.

The icon will be missing from the menu entry until you restart Gnome. You can just log out then in again.

Two folders should appear in your Home folder. A "Exaile-BZR" folder (where the app gets stored) and a ".exaile" folder (where your user settings go).

Now this will do a BZR checkout every time you launch Exaile from the icon we made here. If your on broadband this should only cause a minor delay. There's usually only minor updates after the 1st time you run it from the menu.

6. Enjoy Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/)!

Also if at anytime Exaile doesnt start from the launcher run it from a terminal to help diagnose the problem. ~/Exaile-BZR/exaile This will happen. Not often but it will.

Exaile resources:

Main site: http://www.exaile.org/trac
Bug reports: http://www.exaile.org/trac/report
IRC channel: #exaile on Freenode


Everyone in encouraged to help and report bugs. :) I hope you like it.
doggie
February 24th, 2007, 10:29 PM
hey thanks for how to... but, dont you think is easier by adding a line to the sources.list file :confused: ...

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42 edgy exaile-svn

You need to add the key from exaile and then just install it

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/syzygy42/8434D43A.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install exaile



I guess that the svn version and the repository version are same version...... right??
correct me if Im wrong...

ps: sorry for my english :lolflag:
MetalMusicAddict
February 24th, 2007, 10:33 PM
No. Its not the same. With a repo you have to wait for someone to build the .deb.

With python apps you can just run them.

Also adding repos opens you up to things you might not want to be exposed to.
doggie
February 25th, 2007, 11:03 AM
I think the same... You could have a lot of problems with the repos, but in this case, the repo is in the official exaile website, so they, i guess, keep it up to date

http://www.exaile.org/trac/wiki/Releases

but how I said before, thanks for the how to
MetalMusicAddict
February 25th, 2007, 11:07 AM
I think the same... You could have a lot of problems with the repos, but in this case, the repo is in the official exaile website, so they, i guess, keep it up to date

http://www.exaile.org/trac/wiki/Releases

but how I said before, thanks for the how to

They do not maintain that repo.
SishGupta
February 27th, 2007, 12:07 AM
Thank you for this!
aktiwers
February 27th, 2007, 12:17 AM
Worked great, thanks!
MetalMusicAddict
February 27th, 2007, 10:02 AM
To let you guys know, there is some current flux going on and Im having issues with SVN. I still have .2.8 installed as a back-up. ;)
gosh
March 13th, 2007, 07:41 AM
Thanx for this HowTo.
Worked perfectly
dn*
June 22nd, 2007, 12:51 PM
Wow, this is great, thanks! The SVN repo wasn't working for me, probably because I'm AMD64 so thanks. The SVN I just got has fixed almost all of the major issues I had with the last stable release.
MetalMusicAddict
June 22nd, 2007, 07:57 PM
Thanx for the thanx. :)
dn*
August 29th, 2007, 12:29 PM
Exaile has moved from subversion to bazaar. For those using this script, a few modifications must be made. You have to start clean, so I moved my Exaile-SVN folder to Exaile-OLD
mv Exaile-SVN Exaile-OLD

and then edited the exaile-svn command
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/exaile-svn
change it to:
#!/bin/bash
cd Exaile-SVN && bzr up
~/Exaile-SVN/exaile
MetalMusicAddict
August 29th, 2007, 12:33 PM
Yes thanx. I meant to make the change. Ill do it now. ;)
dn*
August 29th, 2007, 12:48 PM
oops, got it wrong. fixed now. thanks to #exaile :)
dn*
September 13th, 2007, 06:50 PM
x
olavjunior
September 30th, 2007, 03:47 PM
GREAT!! Thanx alot :
olavjunior
October 2nd, 2007, 03:57 AM
bzr: ERROR: Target directory "Exaile-BZR" already exists.
&
ImportError: No module named mutagen

Exaile won't start..
MetalMusicAddict
October 2nd, 2007, 09:07 AM
This HOW-TO assumes you have all the proper things installed to run Exaile normally.

bzr: ERROR: Target directory "Exaile-BZR" already exists.
&
ImportError: No module named mutagen

Exaile won't start..

You're missing depends. Install Exaile from the repos to grab them. Then just remove the exaile package installed from the repo.You should then be fine.
olavjunior
April 4th, 2008, 03:55 AM
This isn't cutting edge anymore, cause they're working on a brand new 0.3 version! But this will give you the latest 0.2 version, but there's not much happening with that one anymore, so no need to pull from bzr everytime you start
jordey24
October 22nd, 2008, 11:09 AM
It didnt work :(
when i type bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~exaile-devel/exaile/main Exaile-BZR
in the terminal,it gives me an error:
bzr: ERROR: Not a branch: "https://code.launchpad.net/".

What did i do wrong?
-Jordey24
puppy
October 22nd, 2008, 03:25 PM
same error here... ?
unc0nn3ct3d
October 26th, 2008, 01:03 AM
Yep, getting the same error here..Hope to have a solution soon

Ok, so the problem is that with the above instructions the BZR updates are going into ~/exaile .

So what you want to do to start is check to see if there already is a ~/exaile dir.. If so just rename it for now and in your home directory run bzr branch lp:exaile

That will create the exaile dir and stick everything new in there..

you will also need to edit your /usr/local/bin/exaile-bzr file so that it reads like this


#!/bin/bash
cd exaile && bzr pull
~/exaile/exaile


that should set you up for the latest updates