Migrating My Music Collection To Linux Part 3

[Moozik: Catherine Wheel - The Nude]

Installing Banshee 0.12.0 on Ubuntu Edgy

The official Banshee package in Ubuntu Edgy is rather old and doesn't support the banshee-itunes-import-plugin. Not to worry though as 0.12.0 was released on March 5th and the install from source proved to be rather easy once I'd figured out the dependencies.

For future reference if I ever have to do this again, here's how I solved the dependency problem.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep banshee
sudo apt-get install build-essential libmono-sqlite2.0-cil libmono-cairo2.0-cil \
libglib2.0-dev libtool subversion autoconf automake1.9 gnome-common \
libavahi1.0-cil

Then because I did have an older version of banshee installed, I got rid of it before installing the new version.

cd /usr/lib
rm -r banshee

Then it was a matter of installing from source along with ipod-sharp and libipoddevice.

I now had a working Banshee. Next on the agenda, importing my music collection along with playcounts & playlists from my iTunes music library.