audacious plug in install?

[soryu]

I downloaded a plug in for audacious but have no idea how to install it.
it's a tar.gz file.(infinityplug in)
i've read a couple of how to install tar.gz files threads but still have no idea how to install.

[asus-user]

I downloaded a plug in for audacious but have no idea how to install it.
it's a tar.gz file.(infinityplug in)
i've read a couple of how to install tar.gz files threads but still have no idea how to install.

It would be much better if you give the complete file name, or the files included in it, if there is a "readme.txt", that would explain everything to you.
Some plugins need install and others need only extraction and copy to the plugins directory of the application (requires root privileges) and they work fine after restarting the application.

The standard way to install tar packages is to open terminal in the directory of the tar archive and run the following command (replace <filename> with the actual file name, and use sudo infront the command if it asked for root privilege):

tar -zxvf <filename>.tar.gz
cd <filename>.tar.gz
make
make install

Try it and post any error messages you get here.

[kulen19]

As far I remember you just have to move the plug-in to the correct location. Have you read this: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man...#linux_plugins ?

I can't remember if you have to unpack it first, but you can do that with installing unrar first(sudo apt-get install unrar) and then unpack it(either by the command-line, or rightclicking on the tar.gz file. I would recommend you put both the compressed file and the unpacked contents in the plug-in folder, so you can be sure that you've done it properly.

Best of luck.

EDIT: Sorry, I read Audacity instead of Audacious.

[soryu]

file name is infinity-plugin-4-audacious-0.7.1.
i tried to move the extracted folder to the audacious folder using gksu nautilus. nothing happend.

[mc4man]

It may be a source file that you'd need to compile & may only do so with older versions of audacious. (the plugin source is about 2 years old..
Look inside your extracted folder, should be fairly obvious if it is just the source & not a compiled plugin

[sammiev]

Why not use Synaptic package manager and select audacious?

[asus-user]

file name is infinity-plugin-4-audacious-0.7.1.
i tried to move the extracted folder to the audacious folder using gksu nautilus. nothing happend.

As I mentioned before, in the file list inside the package there might be a help text file to explain the steps of installing.
I found this link where I could download the mentioned package:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/infi...dacious/0.7.1/
inside the package there is a file called "INSTALL" where everything about the installation of this plug-in is explained
in short, using Terminal:

cd <the directory containing the package's source code=extracted files>
./configure
make
sudo make install

Refer to "INSTALL" file for more details and explanations.

[asus-user]

Why not use Synaptic package manager and select audacious?

It is a plug-in which is wanted to be installed, not the main program

[asus-user]

It may be a source file that you'd need to compile & may only do so with older versions of audacious. (the plugin source is about 2 years old.

yes, the plug-in might be not compatible with the current version of audacious, @soryu: I can't tell, and I am not using audacious, so consider that possibility.

[soryu]

As I mentioned before, in the file list inside the package there might be a help text file to explain the steps of installing.
I found this link where I could download the mentioned package:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/infi...dacious/0.7.1/
inside the package there is a file called "INSTALL" where everything about the installation of this plug-in is explained
in short, using Terminal:

cd <the directory containing the package's source code=extracted files>
./configure
make
sudo make install

Refer to "INSTALL" file for more details and explanations.

the file is on my desktop how would i type that in?

CD<desktop>??
./configure
make
sudo make install[/???????]
i 've never really used the terminal to install anything.

"README" says i need SDL1.0.6 or above to run plugin.
how can i check if i have it?