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Installtion of Banshee

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Sridhar_Rao
Sridhar_Rao Original post #1
Sep 17, 2008 at 7:26 AM
I tried to install Banshee and visited this page for info: *edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive I did as recommended until the last step here
1. Open Software Sources (System->Administration->Software Sources)
2. Navigate to the "Third Party Sources" tab.
3. Click "Add"
4. Enter the APT line below that corresponds to your Ubuntu version that starts with "deb".
5. Click "Add Source"
6. Click "Close"
Click to expand...
After this I got a dialog box saying something like... it is out of date....and update it...instead of the expected following
7. It will prompt you to reload your software cache. Click "Reload".
8. Now install the package "banshee-1" from Synaptic, or using the command below:
sudo apt-get install banshee-1

I did not get to click on Reload. Nothing happened thereafter. I went to synaptic anyway, located Banshee (not Banshee 1) and it got installed. When I looked at the about, its version was 0.8 and not 1.2.1 that I expected to install. What went wrong?

By the way the apt line was
deb *ppa.launchpad.net/banshee-team/ubuntu intrepid main
ray|raven
ray|raven #2
Sep 17, 2008 at 8:30 AM
Clicking reload will refresh the package list from the repositories.

Uninstall the banshee you installed , do a reload/refresh in Synaptic and then look for banshee , you should find an updated version.
Sridhar_Rao
Sridhar_Rao #3
Sep 17, 2008 at 7:19 PM
Please help me :(

In the synaptic package manager I found an entry for Banshee after reloading it, it reads installed version as 0.13.2+dfsg-9 and the latest version as 0.13.2+dfsg-9. The version in the "help > about" is given as 0.13.2. I am all confused, which is this version? Is it very old? How do I update it?

I checked website *edge.launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive and I found these versions and more.
banshee - 0.13.2+dfsg-9~gutsy1 (that is the one I have, published: 2008-04-13)
banshee-1 - 1.2.1-3~hardy2 (published: 2008-09-16). I believe this is latest, is it necessary to go for banshee-1 - 1.2.1-3~hardy2, any difference? If yes, how can I switch to this version?

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