Installing CoverGloobus

Question

Is there any easier way to install Covergloobus 1.6 in Ubuntu 10.10 ? PPA doesnt work , tried to compile it but failed , are there any other ways??

Answer 1

The Lucid packages from the PPA work in Maverick, but you have to download them manually.

Here are the direct download links from the PPA:

• covergloobus_1.7-4_i386.deb
• covergloobus_1.7-4_amd64.deb

Answer 2

CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name – an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop

PPA

Enter a terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal) and use:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install covergloobus

Tar

Download from the website, extract, enter the directory and run:

./autogen.sh && make && sudo make install

Answer 3

As said before, there is no maverick ppa. But you can use the lucid ppa, if you prefer to install by ppa rather than .deb, and also to be updated: in a terminal run

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then copy and paste the following at the end of the file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gloobus-dev/covergloobus/ubuntu lucid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gloobus-dev/covergloobus/ubuntu lucid main 

Finally, update sources and install:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install covergloobus

Answer 4

Addendum to @hhlp: CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name ...

TAR

Better use checkinstall, this resutls in a .deb package. If you like to revert to a previous version, be sure to first uninstall the old version (sudo apt-get remove covergloobus):

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
./autogen.sh && checkinstall make install