Build Audacious from source (7.10 - 64bit)

This guide have been tested on Ubuntu 7.10 64bit Gnome.

The guide will show you how to compile the latest stable version of Audacious and how to set Audacious to auto-play when inserting a music CD. At last but not least how to change the skins and the graphic in Audacious.





Before Installation.

First thing you need is to enable all the sources in your repository. You can do that by; System tab ---> Administration ---> Software Sources.
You also need to enable medibuntu which you can find here; http://www.medibuntu.org/

When that is done, open the terminal (Applications tab ---> Accessories ---> Terminal ).
To build Audacious from the source the right tools, libs and headers is needed, type this in the terminal;

• sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade
• sudo aptitude install build-essential mercurial autogen automake checkinstall
• sudo aptitude install libgtk2.0-dev libpng12-dev libglade2-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libmcs-dev bison libxml2-dev libxcomposite-dev imlib11-dev
• sudo aptitude install gettext libsamplerate0-dev libsidplay1-dev libsidplay2-dev libflac-dev libmad0-dev libvorbis-dev libasound2-dev libesd0-dev libpulse-dev libsndfile1-dev libmpcdec-dev liblame-dev
• sudo aptitude install liblircclient-dev libbinio-dev libwavpack-dev libtag1-dev libjack0.100.0-dev libresid-builder-dev libfluidsynth-dev libcdio-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libmms-dev libmtp-dev libsdl1.2-dev libimlib2-dev libcdio-cdda-dev libcddb2-dev libneon26-dev flex

There's one lib that you need but it's not available in Ubuntu repo, therefore it needs to be build as well;

Libmowgli

• cd ~/Desktop
• hg clone http://hg.atheme-project.org/libmowgli libmowgli-devel
• cd libmowgli-devel
• sh autogen.sh
• ./configure --prefix=/usr
• make
• sudo make install

Now you are ready to compile, build and install Audacious.



Installation

The first thing that need to be build is Audacious. This is the structure of Audacious and do not contain any plugins, codecs and format.
To the terminal;

• cd ~/Desktop
• wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/audacious-1.4.6.tgz
  
• tar zxfv audacious-1.4.6.tgz
• cd audacious-1.4.6
• ./configure --enable-samplerate
• make
• sudo checkinstall
• cd src/libaudclient
• sudo cp -r libaudclient.so /usr/lib/libaudclient.so.1
  

Next Audacious Plugin;

• cd ~/Desktop
• wget http://distfiles.atheme.org/audacious-plugins-1.4.5.tgz
• tar zxfv audacious-plugins-1.4.5.tgz
• cd audacious-plugins-1.4.5
• ./configure
• make
• sudo checkinstall

Audacious is now installed and ready for use. You can start it by writting audacious in the terminal or via Applications tab ---> Sound & Video ---> Audacious.

This guide used checkinstall, so if you like to uninstall it, you can do it via synaptic. Remember if you want to build or install another version of Audacious you must uninstall the previous one that is build by checkinstall.



Skins

To install skins for Audacious you have to move the skin(s) to /usr/local/share/audacious/Skins
Note you don't need to extract the skin file, just copy it to the location.

an example if you have the skin called Aqua.wsz on your Desktop;

• cd ~/Desktop
• sudo mv Aqua.wsz /usr/local/share/audacious/Skins

If you have a folder full of skins

• cd [into director]
• sudo mv * /usr/local/share/audacious/Skins

Auto-play CDs

Type;

• gnome-volume-properties

Go to the Multimedia tab and select Audio CD Discs

fill in;

• audacious -p /media/cdrom

Done.



Advanced Eyecandy

This is needed to be done before you start to build Audacious source, if you already build an install Audacious you need to uninstall it to accompilish this.

If you want to change the icon and the graphic like I have done (see screenshots), you have to do this;

Copy this file to your Desktop;

http://www.filefactory.com/file/0b7e14/

and do a;

• cd ~/Desktop
• tar zxfv Audacious-Inner-Theme.tar.gz

copy audacious.png from image folder to audacious-1.4.0/pixmaps
Then move rest of the icons in the image folder to audacious-1.4.0/src/audacious/images
The icons in audioscrobbler folder you move to audacious-plugins-1.4.0/src/scrobbler/images



If you want to make your own Audacious preferences icons, here is the background for it;