SongBird xulrunner

[Adams87]

Hi. I am new to linux, I've been playing around with Ubuntu and I'm really liking it. I have to tried to install SongBird from the tar I have it my home directory, but when I try to run it with ./songbird it gives me this error

could not find compatible GRE version between 1.9.0 and 1.9.0.*.

I have done a lot of searching before posting and I haven't been able to come up with a solution. One place I was looking I seen something about xulrunner but I have no idea what that is but when I type xulrunner -v I get

Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.1.8 - 20100214235958

Thanks in advance,
Adam

[n0dix]

Do you have installed java-jre?

[Adams87]

I dont think so. When I search for java-jre in synaptic it doesn't find it. Is that my probem? Where would I get it or what repository would I need to add to get it?

[Arkitekt]

have you tried adding the getdeb repo and installing it from apt?

[Adams87]

have you tried adding the getdeb repo and installing it from apt?

I'm not sure exactly how to do that, as I am very new to linux and the terminal although I have been trying to use the terminal as much as I can because I would like to to become proficient at it.

How would I do that? Sorry, I'm trying not be such a newbie.

[n0dix]

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

[Adams87]

$ sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre

I found that I do have sun-java6-jre installed, I was searching for java-jre... haha

I added the getdeb repo and installed songbird from there and it works perfectly thanks .

I still don't understand why it wouldn't work from the .tar, o'well. Thank you for your help.

[n0dix]

Please, mark the thread as Solved.